Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every seventh New Yorker?could constitute the seventh largest municipality in the U.S. The aid bill for that doomed city within the city last year: $1.7 billion, a sixfold increase in a decade. As is the case with so much of the welfare nightmare, Lindsay's problems mix the pathetic and the bizarre; to his horror welfare officials recently lodged an indigent family at the Waldorf Astoria for a day, claiming absurdly that there was no room elsewhere. Many others on relief, unable to find homes, live in exorbitantly priced but squalid hotels overrun with vice and drug addiction...
...clutches her groin when strangers pass by? Is something special in the white fisherman who speaks with pride of his people (old Tories) and shares his catch with his less fortunate black comrades? Is something special in the "slows" of the bartender who takes half an hour to mix his friends' drinks while he mixes the tourists' quickly...
...pessimism is the deep distrust with which the U.S. and the Soviet Union view each other's proposals. The U.S. plan contemplates a comprehensive limit on both offensive and defensive weaponry. It calls for a numerical limit of about 1,900 delivery vehicles for each side. The exact mix within that limit would be left to each power to decide. Within the quantitative limit, each side could make a number of qualitative improvements on existing weapons systems...
...essential at this point in our divided history that we mix with the middle class, and Middle America is calling from the bowling alley. That great Middle American in the sky, Richard Nixon, makes no secret of his love for the sport. He, his wife Pat, and Julie and Tricia used to bowl together regularly in the family's early life, and look what it's done for their values. I think we ought to go one step further on Mayor Vellucci's proposal to pave Harvard Yard and make it a parking lot. I say that once we have...
Miss Bohan, service representative for the phone company, attributed the error in billing to a computer mix-up, saying that the changeover in students from the summer school to the winter session was so rapid that the computer could not keep up with where the centrex phones had been installed over he summer...