Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jackie gamely stuck with it until 12:30, then quietly slipped on her Jean Patou coat over her mint-green gown and left by the stage door, where a car waited to take her to the Ritz-Carlton. Next day she headed for the Kennedy compound at Cape Cod, where an Indian-summer day awaited...
...overall impression," he said "is a compound of ignorance, provincialism, and plain incompetence...
...also solved the problem of charcoal briquettes that don't smell like hickory and finished furs that don't smell like mink. Without help, shoes nowadays smell more like adhesives, rubber soles and dye than leather; many manufacturers have taken to deodorizing footwear, then spraying on a compound that smells the way shoes are supposed to smell...
...Peace Program, $1.7 billion worth will, in fact, find its way to some 100 million people, provide school lunches for 40 million schoolchildren, help stave off famine and political unrest the world over. The residue, added to the nation's vast stockpile of surplus commodities, will merely compound what urban Americans have long accepted as "the farm mess...
...would come looking for us." Added Williams: "I can't read or write. I believe I was tricked to sign the wrong paper." Two other jurors agreed with Williams' analysis, but the remaining three swore that they thought all six had voted for innocence. To compound the confusion, three jurors were illiterate, one could not sign his name, and none actually knew what Williams had signed...