Word: blende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quebec's last election, the Liberal had a phrase for Duplessis' Union Nationale and his particular blend of corporatism, nationalism and sheer political expediency. They called it "Union Nazionale...
...book owes much of its punch to Illustrator Mervyn Peake, whose line drawings (see cut, p. 101) blend Tenniel fantasy with George Grosz bitters...
...Hope. It sprang up swiftly, telepathically, among U.S. servicemen in Britain this summer, traveling faster than even whirlwind Hope himself, then flew ahead of him to North Africa and Sicily, growing larger as it went. Like most legends, it represents measurable qualities in a kind of mystical blend. Hope was funny, treating hordes of soldiers to roars of laughter. He was friendly-ate with servicemen, drank with them, read their doggerel, listened to their songs. He was indefatigable, running himself ragged with five, six, seven shows a day. He was figurative-the straight link with home, the radio voice that...
Author Priestley's best-selling manipulations of sweetness and light (The Good Companions) have neither closed his mind nor cloyed his large public. Daylight on Saturday is a surprisingly successful blend of his new realism and his old sentiment. It reveals a picture of wartime England that will entertain the lighthearted, interest the thoughtful...
...hundred Harvard and Radcliffe voices will blend into Bach's B Minor Mass for the benefit of the crowd at the Esplanade tonight when the Glee Club and the choral Society get together to present their first joint concert of the summer term...