Word: blende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blend, the summer capital, I met an economist who had just been promoted from a high school teaching post to the University of Belgrade. In answer to my questions on his profession, he began to praise Tito as "the hero and leader of our people" and methodically continued with a doctrinaire exposition of Marxist economic theory. In spite of my attempts to interrupt his logic, he proved he had swallowed whole the official line. On a more practical level, he explained, "we have introduced an incentive wage for the worker. According to his production, he receives up to forty percent...
...pointed and graphic. Like a Biblical Baedeker, he takes his listeners strolling down Pavements of Gold, introduces them to a rippling-muscled Christ who resembles Charles Atlas with a halo, then drops them abruptly into the Lake of Fire for a sample scalding. His language is a strange, original blend of farm-boy idiom, Shakespeare, the New Testament and the newest slang. Sample Grahamism, aimed at those who protest that they were raised in good Christian homes, therefore don't need to be "converted": "Just because you were born in a garage, does that make you an automobile...
...brick building of generous proportions, the station was designed to blend with the ivy covered Harvard buildings in the vicinity. The Cambridge Fire Department prides itself on having the most collegiate looking, fire station in the country. Certainly it is one of the largest in the country. Most fire houses are two story affairs, but the Central has three stories, equal actually to five ordinary stories since the ground floor, called the apparatus room, is three stories high...
...finesse with patter is legendary, and he van steal a scene with a grimace of distress or a struggle with a rebellious toe. Scurrying up the scenery and tirelessly waddling, dancing and rolling across the stage, Green makes Tittipu an enormously funny place. His performance is a remarkable blend of subtlety and furious comic energy...
...most pervasive of all religions, and theologically one of the most accommodating. In the 2,500 years since Gautama Buddha first preached his doctrines in India, they have spread over Asia like a billowing saffron robe. In the process, Buddhist doctrines have been porous enough to admit and blend with local beliefs, such as spirit-worship in Burma, Confucianism in China, and the ancestor worship of Japanese Shinto...