Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forced horror-struck natives to violate tribal taboos, and so bound them to the movement by cutting them off from all else. Some of the grisly Mau Mau oath-taking rites called for copulation with sheep, eating the flesh of exhumed corpses or drinking the "Kaberi-chia cocktail," a blend of semen, menstrual blood and sheep's blood...
...outpost has long subdued the beast with a Jeffersonian blend of what its citizens call "small town living and cosmopolitan thinking." Except for the five years that carpetbaggers closed it after the Civil War, the university has forged a freedom that makes it the conscience of North Carolina and the most enlightened state campus in the South...
Unlike most Western orchestras, the Leningrad under permanent Conductor Eugene Mravinsky seems to strive less for a blend of orchestral sound than for a contrast of one orchestral section with another-slightly thick woodwinds, say, against blazingly powerful brasses. The orchestra's special glory is its string section, which includes 18 first violins and plays with surpassing balance, precision and dynamic range...
...years since he became president of the World Bank, rangy Eugene Black, 64, has capitalized on a unique blend of financial acuteness and infectious Southern charm to borrow some $2 billion from private investors and relend it to backward nations for carefully chosen investment projects. In the process, the international financial community has come to think of the World Bank (official title: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) as "Gene Black's bank." This week, with Black close to the mandatory retirement age, the bank's 18 executive directors will name a new boss for Gene Black...
Indeed, critics say that all of his buildings resemble each other: precast concrete with graceful curves and lacelike designs, a box-shaped podium for a base, and, inevitably, surrounding gardens that blend with the building. He has reshaped the Motor City's skyline so much that many feel historians will refer to the 1960s as "The Yamasaki Era in Detroit...