Word: blende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...KNEW LIFE wasn't going to be easy on the outside, especially when on the morning of commencement I found that my good ol' run-of-the-mill, blend-into-the-crowd cap and gown had, presto-chango, become a considerably fancier, stick-out-like-a-sore thumb Juris Doctor gown and cap two sizes too small for my head. At the time I confess I wasn't aware of the foul-up, but when I saw none of my neighbors wearing similar get-ups, I got a little concerned. "Oh, god! I'm a freak," I thought...
Architect I. M. Pei, explaining the "1974 plan" to a crowd of 100 Cambridge officials and residents at City Hall Friday, said he has redesigned the project to blend into the fabric of Harvard Square by reducing the size of the buildings and switching from concrete to brick as the primary facade material...
...presses last week, Billie Jean King appeared not only as cover subject and writer but as product huckster in four ads. Such full-court cover age is the prerogative of tennis' leading lady who, with her husband Larry, also happens to be womenSports' publisher. A cheerful blend of consciousness raising and coaching, issue No. 1 includes a guide to winning by Billie Jean and a doctor's report on the physical capacity of women to compete with men (highly favorable, except in contact sports). The first run is a healthy 325,000 copies, and Publisher King hopes...
Transport for Christ-and its blend of safety and salvation-was a trucker's idea. It was founded by a Canadian, James W. ("Chaplain Jim") Keys, now 43. Keys, who had driven out of Toronto from the age of 13, was a veteran of a trucker's pleasures. "I wasn't such a great drinker," he says, "but women were a source of evil for me." He had also narrowly escaped death from a flash fire while fueling trucks. "At the ripe old age of 20, I was coming apart." A chance visit to a Toronto church...
...incongruous blend of circus and bloodbath. The number of lawmen on the scene swelled to 350. Miraculously, no civilians or officers were seriously wounded. Neighborhood dogs kept up a howling chorus that could be heard over the most intense firing. In a park on the corner, kids climbed to the tops of slides for a better-but hazardous -look...