Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office have not been easy on either man. Yet each in his own fashion mounted bold attacks on the enormous problems in his city. In the process, they have worked no miracles of unity. But they have succeeded in allaying the baser suspicions that clouded their campaigns. If blue-collar workers and diverse ethnic groups remain vaguely hostile to both mayors, Stokes and Hatcher have won impressive financial and moral support from the business community...
...followers engineered the defeat of Krishna Menon's bid for re-election to Parliament. Since that time, Thackeray has fought hard to obtain a better break for the natives of Maharashtra State, of which Bombay is the capital; in particular, he worked to get more white-collar jobs for them, charging that outsiders from the neighboring states of Mysore and Kerala hold a disproportionate number of these eagerly sought posts in Bombay. His war cry is "Maharashtra for the Maharashtrians," and he has been pressing the Indian government for several months for a resolution of Maharashtra State...
...image by bending light beams from the target so that they would always hit the camera film or the retina of the viewer's eye at the same point. Using this concept, the Pennsylvania company developed a portable system that weighs only a few pounds. Mounted like a collar around the lens of a camera or other optical instrument, it steadies the image more effectively than stabilization platforms...
When an optical instrument is shaken or moved, two tiny gyroscopes in the Dynalens collar sense the motion and send signals that control miniature electric motors connected to the glass plates at each end of the prism. The motors, which respond almost instantaneously to movements of the optical instrument, tilt the plates to change the shape of the prism, thus bending the incoming light beams just enough to compensate for the motion. The result is a clear and remarkably steady image...
Caught in a Dog Collar. "Perhaps I play him more sympathetically than he is," says McCowen. "I love the man very much." This kind of commitment to a character, McCowen feels, is the specialty of American acting, by which he considers himself strongly influenced. "American actors," he says, "may be sometimes lacking in technique, but they are never superficial. I think American theater has been a good influence on the English-more than they will admit. I found from the Americans that there was a great deal more to my job than I had realized...