Word: mix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think you can mix them if you want prompt action...
...pits, the lighter malachite swirled to the surface and could be more readily separated from the other rock. Half a mile away there were 13 furnaces, where the Bronze Age metallurgists smelted the ore, using iron as a flux (a substance that combines with impurities, forming a molten mix that can be easily removed). Bronze Age miners were able to produce 22-lb. copper ingots that were 97% to 98% pure, a degree of purity not exceeded until modern times...
...pointless, but it's innocent enough, and Bernstein admits that these analogies are only "quasi-scientific." In later lectures, though, he seems to take them quite seriously--at one point he even calls a bar of Mozart that involves both rhythm and harmony a "participle," as if you could mix parts of speech the way you mix blue and yellow to get green...
Many of the out-of-school children had one thing in common: poverty. In Floyd County, Ky., for example, 21% of the children C.D.F. interviewed said that their parents could not afford to buy books or pay the required school fees. There was a wide racial and ethnic mix among the children. In the predominantly white Riverton Housing Project in Portland, Me., 11% of all school-age children were not attending school. In one census tract in New Bedford, Mass., 73% of all children of Portuguese descent were out of class. In the Northgate Housing Project in Montgomery...
...jurors are an intriguing mix...