Word: blend
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Advocates often showed a curious blend of naivete and arrogance. There was a failure initially to recruit nonworking and minority women. Nonprofessional pink-collar workers felt put down. Women who had "made it" economically also felt estranged. When it came to lobbying legislators, ERA supporters could be appallingly inept. In Illinois, a woman offered a legislator a $1,000 bribe. In Georgia, a state representative claimed that he had been propositioned in an effort to solicit his vote. And in Florida, pro-ERA workers banged on doors of legislators' homes at 7 a.m. to hand them literature, a state...
...finally been persuaded by Habib to leave his native village in central Lebanon and join the negotiations. Habib provided Jumblatt with a car and a safe-conduct pass for his trip to the presidential palace in Baabda. That kind of skillful arranging was only one of the rare blend of talents that Habib, 62, brought to his latest daunting assignment. Last year it was the blunt-spoken Habib who persuaded Israel and the P.L.O. to accept an unwritten ceasefire, which lasted until the Israeli invasion of Lebanon began. But his latest peacemaking chore is undoubtedly the most difficult task...
Peronism is now a splintered movement, but its various branches all endorse some blend of nationalism and populist welfarism. One faction still supports Isabelita Peron, now in her own exile in Madrid. If the party is indeed permitted to operate openly, the question is not just whether the Peronists will be able to overcome their differences and win the electoral majority they claim. It is also whether the military will accept such an outcome...
...contrast, the work of former Painter Peter Danko, 33, of Alexandria, Va., is an advance along the simple path cut by Nakashima. Danko's furniture represents an intriguing blend of the sculptural and the functional, with a healthy respect for the natural qualities of the wood. More over, pieces like the Danko Chair are light in weight and appearance and thus well suited to small apartments. With delight ful ingenuity, Danko is experimenting with folding chairs of molded plywood. One of the plies is a bendable, plastic material, so the chair folds without metal hinges...
After losing five starters following the 1981 season, the laxwomen turned out to be a surprising blend of talented yardlings and seasoned veterans, who transformed this campaign from a rebuilding season into one that included a 12-6 regular season record, an Eastern Championship, one-half of an Ivy title and a seventh place finish at the Nationals...