Word: mixed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Townsend, a senior and a concentrator in English, entered College in 1945. His Army career was unhappy one of his friends Geoffrey Groff-Smith '49 said. According to Groff-Smith, Townsend failed to mix with his fellows and got "one bad deal after another...
...cannot brook restraint or criticism and has quarreled with most close business associates, he cannot bear to be alone; he keeps himself surrounded by a circle of yes-men. They treat him with anxious concern, like veterinarians in a lion's cage. But McCarthy needs them-to mix him a drink, answer the telephone, nod when he speaks, to leap into a plane with him if he wants to go to New York, to Hollywood...
...Americans are not here exclusively to feed the German people and promote economic recovery . . . Our main purpose is to help Germany achieve political recovery . . . That is my answer to those who occasionally say that we have no right to mix in the political problems confronting this country...
...time I crawled out of the Paramount theater, I somehow wished that DeMille wasn't such a Bible fan after all. Spectacles and morals somehow don't mix; it's like holding a revival meeting in the Latin Quarter...
...some states women were not allowed to serve on juries, or to run a business and keep the profits without their husbands' consent. In some states a husband might get a divorce from an unfaithful wife but not vice versa. In some states women might not handle baggage, mix strong drinks in public places, work in blast furnaces, bowling alleys or shoeshine parlors. It was not a question of whether they wanted to do these things; they just resented the implication of inferiority. The proposed amendment would wipe out all such strictures at one stroke...