Word: mix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Frank Goad Clement, 49, three-term Governor of Tennessee; in an automobile accident; in Nashville, Tenn. Tall, handsome, a devout Methodist and Bible-spouting orator ("If a man finds his politics and religion don't mix, there is something wrong with his politics"), Clement won Tennessee's governorship in 1952 at the age of 32; two years later he was easily reelected. A moderate in the diehard South, he rose to national prominence as the Democratic Convention keynoter in 1956 with his "How long, America, O how long?" speech, ripping into "Vice-Hatchetman" Nixon. A third term...
...Besret, a tall, Rome-trained doctor of theology, encouraged his monks to mix with people in the bistros and shops of neighboring villages. At monastery masses, the traditional Host was replaced with crusty Breton bread passed around in baskets. "We have no right to do something simply because it is written in a book," Dom Besret explained. "It must be true to life. Otherwise, it's only theater...
Princeton scored again midway through the fourth quarter when a Harvard defensive mix-up allowed a Tiger forward in the goal area unguarded. The Crimson pressed hard for the rest of regulation time, but missed several scoring opportunities. And neither team could score in the five-minute overtime periods...
...people know what goes on in Cambridge and none of you care. There's a wall between you and everyone else. You all stay here and you don't know what goes on in this town. You don't want to meet the people, you don't want to mix with them, you don't care the least about them. You think you're above the people. You're all sitting way up above them, way up high. Pusey and his men in their diamond cuff links-they could care less about the city. The City Council has invited them...
...parents who yearn to give their children upper-class accents and the university aura that separates gentlemen from others. Now the Labor Party wants to send all children to comprehensive schools-and many middle-class parents are aghast. If grammar schools go, they charge, their children will have to mix with academic and social inferiors. Seizing the issue, the Conservative Party has vowed to block the Labor plan, especially if the Tories win Britain's forthcoming national elections...