Word: mix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...herself, who last week took a bunch of the boys off on a sightseeing tour of some local Roman ruins. Concluded Albert Clarke, a retired police superintendent and unofficial camp "commandant," who had come along to enforce discipline in case of trouble: "I thought it would be bad to mix the fortunates and the unfortunates. It had never been done before. But it has worked out fine...
...canoe, glances at his stainless-steel Rolex wristwatch, yanks the starter cord on his Johnson outboard motor, and whooshes upstream in a spray of foam (in one year alone, more than 1,000 outboard motors were sold in Brunei). Farther along the river, a work crew of tattooed natives mix concrete for the pilings of a new bridge. There is money in their pockets for ice-cold Carlsberg beer, Lucky Strikes and Ronson cigarette lighters, all on sale at a roadside stand when the lunch break comes. And the future for each of them is made rosier by the promise...
Golfers & Speculators. On the green acres of four nearby courses, golfers yearned to mix business with pleasure. In no time, the price of memberships shot up so high that some are now more expensive than seats on the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange. The price at the Los Angeles Country Club rose from $3,000 (in 1953) to $10,000, and members who paid a cut-rate $150 in mid-Depression were happy over the best investment they ever made...
Having released his special demons of Caesarism, De Riencourt in a kind of guilty afterthought tries to pour the jinn back into the bottle and mix with the tonic of a higher historical synthesis: he lamely concludes that there are "ways and means of reviving our moribund Culture while retaining all the good and necessary features of Civilization...
...deep-voiced version of The Lord's Prayer. "I'm not strictly country boy, and I'm not strictly pop," says Ernie. "You know I couldn't top Roy Acuff's Grand Ole Opry stuff, and I couldn't beat Como. So I mix 'em, and the people like it fine...