Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson's Sullivan had played a squash match the morning of the finals, and the Tournament was his first week of tennis since the squash season began. "He played all right, but you can't mix tennis shots with squash shots," observed Ralph Chambers, Longwood...
Stirred into water and sprayed on the advancing insect armies, the mix starts a deadly chain reaction, one caterpillar infecting another until they are wiped out. Better yet, some infected caterpillars live long enough to spin cocoons. For years the rain that trickles over the dead cocoons spreads virulent spores and protects the forest from a new invasion of caterpillars...
...noisy sales campaign with company executives dashing around garbed in the Jeno symbol, a wide Italian hat. "Trouble was," says Paulucci. "we were selling a symbol, not a product. It was an utter failure." He lost $200,000, now sells only spaghetti sauce and pizza mix...
...subject of the disagreement at Buckingham Palace was: What school should 13-year-old Prince Charles attend? Queen Elizabeth wanted Eton, where Charles would wear a swallowtail coat, and mix mainly with sons of U.K.'s uppermost crust. Father Philip held out for Scotland's rugged Gordonstoun, his own old school, which among other goals aims to "free the sons of the rich and powerful from the enervating sense of privilege." Last week the palace announced the choice: Gordonstoun...
This is not to say that administrative mix-ups are more important than Harvard's mission of teaching and scholarship. It is hardly sensible to suggest that an Economics professor should worry that Harvard purchased the Loeb Drama Center's ash trays at $60 apiece. Or that the same Drama Center has been little use at a University that three years ago badly needed an auditorium. Nor should an Architecture professor make it his exclusive concern that Quincy House's roof was designed to trap melting ice, or that inaptly placed columns and poor acoustics do not make Quincy...