Word: blends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fronts. In Washington, where Johnson's peace offensive helped to blunt the urgent demands of the war, the Administration's present attitude is known as "the new realism." It has crystallized as a blend of idealism and self-interest based on the acknowledgment that the military war cannot be won in a vacuum, that it will only be successful to the extent that it helps liberate the Vietnamese from poverty, ignorance and exploitation. As the President said in welcoming Saigon's leaders to Honolulu: "We are here to talk especially of the works of peace. We will...
...Tasteful Blend...
...American Distilling Co. was about to declare a dividend of one barrel of whisky per share. He bought 5,000 shares on margin-and to make his 5,000-bbl. dividend go up further, he mixed the whisky with alcohol made from potatoes purchased from Government sur pluses. The blend was sold to the wartime whisky-parched public and to other distillers. To produce the alcohol, he began buying distilleries, ended up with eleven, and sold them in 1956, winding up with a total take of well over $10 million...
...reasons. The Orlando Sentinel takes the New York Times service, even though it is admittedly unhappy with the tone of some of the reporting. "A lot of this is prestige," says a Sentinel editor. "You can't avoid that." Other editors like to write a story from a blend of the services. "Two services are better than one," says San Francisco Chronicle Executive Editor Scott Newhall, "and three are better than two." Even when they decide not to run supplemental stories, editors quite often find them useful. "They are a tremendous help in evaluating events," says Miami News Editor...
...inexplicable and unpredictable violence. This project was to be the test of his self-training in listening--not to areas and people familiar to him--but to total strangers. The killers, lawmen, relatives and acquaintances had to be charmed out of hostility, diffidence, and suspicion so that a new blend of reality, fiction, and implication might suggest the truth, rather than the sensationalism, behind such an incident...