Word: mix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theme: a knee-high can be rolled down to become a cuffer; the leg warmer can be adjusted to look like Chaplin's baggy pants. (Beautiful Legs have learned they can also be funny.) Apart from the possible permutations, the socks come in just about every hue and mix and material imaginable. Some striped jobs look like pousse-café or rugby sweaters gone south; others come in cable knits and heathery cottons. There are jacquard knits, woolens in every shade from bubble-gum pink to moonstone gray and Lurex numbers aglitter with specks of gold and silver...
There is no all-embracing solution, at any price, for the complex malaise of the underclass. It would be more realistic?and much less inflationary?to press for a mix of endeavors, in which the Government would reorder some social spending and new efforts would be made by private business and by members of the underclass themselves...
...Guelph sky has been a high, clean blue, the way boyhood skies appear in memory, and at the rink one feels a sense of boyhood. Of course, the men have me mix it with them. In full hockey gear -was any errant knight more burdened? -I skate till my back smarts and my thighs are lead. It is good to leave customary places and remember. This is how sport ought to be: play some, watch some, give pain, take pain, exult...
...full death toll is not yet known. It will not be until several investigations -by the hospital and state and local health authorities-are concluded and their findings made public. But last week relatives and friends of those who died in the hospital during the period before the mix-up was discovered were both stunned and resentful. Housewife Evelyn Erskine, whose 61-year-old mother died suddenly last January after treatment of a respiratory condition, filed the first of many expected lawsuits that could eventually reach millions of dollars. "They had Mother on oxygen, and they were having problems...
...Markus ("Mischa") Wolf, 54, East Germany's Deputy Minister of State Security and top spymaster. A slim, urbane man who favors well-tailored suits and expensive cars, Mischa has run East Germany's espionage operations since 1958 with remarkable success. One major reason: his agents easily mix with the more than 3 million Germans from the Communist East who have moved West since World...