Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though in foreign lands, they invincibly stayed themselves; they also showed an uncanny ability to adapt to other cultures, whether in Latin America, where they concocted a lilting lingua franca known as Spanglish, or Down Under, where they developed a spectacular sport known as Australian Rules, a blend of Gaelic football and rugby...
...Clarke believes that photophores actually protect their bearers by confusing the enemy. The fish cruising below are rather nearsighted, so they do not see the little searchlights as points of brightness. Instead, the lights blend together as in a badly focused photograph, making the silhouette look dim and fuzzy against the lighted ceiling. So the hungry fish with the upturned eyes look elsewhere for dinner...
...last episode, Tammy took her nanny goat and her shanty boat and went down the river to Seminola College to learn to talk proper. Well, the Seminola speech department must have thrown in the vowel, because Tammy is still babbling her own unearthly blend of Christopher Marlowe and Al Capp. The bayous behind her, she is now a nurse's aide in a big Los Angeles hospital...
Sensing that this new you-never-had-it-so-good generation is both weary of Tory rule and leary of Socialist dogma, the Labor program today emphasizes "pragmatism" and "responsibility" rather than headlong plunges into doctrinaire" experiments. The party's catchwords, a heady blend of Gladstonian rhetoric and New Frontier pep talk, call for "a sense of purpose" to "get Britain moving." How much of its ambitious program will actually be enacted depends on the kind of majority it can win at the polls. But there are some fair indications of what Labor aims...
...favorite of journalists, clerics, and the betting population of Rome's cafés. He was, at 65, the right age. He was that all-but-impossible combination, a "liberal" Italian who was basically acceptable to both Curia traditionalists and non-Italian progressives. He had a desirable blend of ecclesiastical experience behind him: eight years in charge of Italy's largest diocese, following three decades of efficient, unobtrusive service in the Vatican's Secretariat of State...