Word: mix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More often than not, U.S. judges are magisterial black-robed referees who leave the legal combat to the attorneys appearing before them. Sometimes, however, they join the fray, as in the just-completed Watergate trial in Washington, where both prosecution and defense seemed so reluctant to mix it up that Judge John J. Sirica was moved to do his own questioning (see THE NATION). In the Pentagon papers trial in Los Angeles, it is Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. who has been forced into taking on both sides...
...voice, first projected himself as a sort of sad-clown chronicler of Middle America (Nobody Cares About the Railroads Anymore, Mr. Tin ker), now is a zany mod-rocker (Coconut, Spaceman). In the poised, warmly expressive style of Flack, 33, the earthy emotions of gospel (Told Jesus) mix with the more polished, sinuous phrasing of jazz (Tryin' Times...
...home squad, rusty from the exam period layoff, played a sloppy second game. Several mix-ups by the visitors let the Harvard-Radcliffe pull into a lead at 12-11, but B.U. took four fast points...
...hand to mix it up with other lucky recipients of genuine invitations (some 200,000 souvenir invitations "suitable for framing" but otherwise useless had been mailed out) were 200 relatives of the Nixons, many of whom had never before met their famous kin. To handle their needs, a special task force was set up at the Watergate, with Navy enlisted men manning the telephones and Army officers planning the logistics. Six red-white-and-blue buses marked FIRST FAMILY transported the assembled relations around town...
...that those clouds may consist of rust-red organic compounds floating in a thick atmosphere of hydrogen, methane and ammonia coughed up by volcanic eruptions. Exposed to the sun's radiation, the gases could form into complex organic compounds, including sugars, purines and even amino acids. Such a mix of ingredients is akin to the primordial "soup" that is believed to have given rise to the first life on earth...