Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extraordinary success, no one dared change a good thing. But by that time, the West was mostly legend, and the values of legend tend to black-and-white good guys and bad guys, and permit of little shading. As legend, the oldtime cowboy will go on looking like Tom Mix. History, thanks to Durham and Jones, has acquired new shadings...
...Goulash Communism," Khrushchev tried to cope with it, and with all his economy's mounting problems, by replanning the planners. No fewer than six times in ten years, he scrambled the organization table, veering from decentralization back to recentralization in the vain hope of finding the magic mix for what he called "better utilization of the country's industrial potential." It eluded him each time-and his constant shufflings left the Russian economy at the mercy of the monster planning Hydra, with its multiple overlapping bureaus on the national, regional and local level, even more than before...
Signal Privilege. Into this tense situation stepped De Gaulle, disregarding his 1963 promise to support the present international monetary system, in which the dollar plays the dominant role and all free world trade is financed by a mix of dollars, British pounds and gold. The time has long since passed, he told a press conference (see THE WORLD), when the currencies of any one or two nations can enjoy "this signal privilege, this signal advantage." The present-day world, said De Gaulle, needs "an indisputable monetary base, and one that does not bear the mark of any particular country...
There are several devices for both home and hospital use to help severely ill emphysema victims get more breath during a crisis. These machines can mix drugs or mucus-dissolving detergents with the breathing mixture. They supply this under pressure through a mask that the patient can hold to his face for a couple of minutes or strap on if he needs longer treatment...
...woman lawyer was licensed in 1869, the not undying male reaction was summed up by Wisconsin's Chief Justice in 1875, when he flatly rejected a woman applicant in his state: "It would be shocking to man's reverence for womanhood that women should be permitted to mix professionally in all the nastiness of the world which finds its way into courts of justice...