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Word: blende (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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This was a boat with character. From nine-year rowing veteran Cooley to novice cox Dixon to second-year-model-of-dedication-stroke Corty Gates, this eight was a special blend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reflections on the Sprints | 5/18/1979 | See Source »

Ever since he was young, Carlson has shown a colorful blend of salesmanship and independence. After graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1937, he took an $85-a-month job as a soap salesman, but the entrepreneurial spirit moved him in 1938 to ask his landlord for a deferral of a month's rent. With this $55 he started the Gold Bond Stamp Co. He quit his job and began selling the stamps to neighborhood grocers until 1952, then advanced to supermarkets. The seven-to eight-month "float" between the time that he sold the stamps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Expanding Along with Carlson | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...Blend--The Paradise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: May 10-May 16 | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

...economic life. It was given added thrust by the 1968 CELAM in Medellin, Colombia, when the bishops overwhelmingly denounced the "institutionalized violence" of various Latin American governments. Since then, many supporters of the comunidades have enthusiastically adopted the language and goals of the "theology of liberation," a peculiar blend of Marxian economic analysis and Gospel imperatives, best articulated by Peruvian Priest Gustavo Gutierrez in the early 1970s. Observes Volta Redonda Bishop Waldyr Calheiros de Novais: "The comunidades are the theology of liberation put into practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Church of the Poor | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...last night, he showed that Harvard was playing a discordant tune. University brass are promising athletic gains with one hand and unyielding academic standards with the other. It can't be both ways; the two must blend. Promising athletic success without the conviction to make it happen just increases frustration...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Old Harvard and New Wave | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

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