Word: compacter
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...automaking heresy of knocking the styling of his company's cars. For this he blamed-however illogically-former A.M.C. Boss George Romney, who left a full four years ago to make his successful bid to become Governor of Michigan. As a result of Romney's legacy of compact economy and "boxy" styling, claimed Evans, American Motors' cars "didn't have something to excite the public...
...another: the trenches of World War I. At 25, he witnessed the collapse of Italian culture under Mussolini. At 29, when he published his first volume of verse (Cuttlefish Bones), he was an apocalyptic pessimist who experienced "existence as entropy" and expressed the experience in language as acrid and compact as Dante...
...largely been moved by necessity in expanding its role in American life. By beginning to put into action the principle of creative federalism, it is simply trying to find the most effective way possible to solve the problems and share the burdens. The future of the federal compact depends on the willingness and ability of the states and cities to help it find that...
...patient: "Trust me." Today's patient, who is sophisticated enough to realize his doctor's limitations, is willing to extend that trust-but in return he wants some understanding and sympathy, the vital ingredients that nowadays are too often missing. That exchange should be a compact between the patient and his doctor. It is a compact less complete than the old one, which was based on the patient's total faith and on far less knowledge, but it is a more realistic...
...steel is shot at up to 44 m.p.h. through rollers that squeeze it out from 32 to 3,560 ft. and thin it from ten inches to less than one inch in four minutes. At the end of the line, a coiling machine rolls the steel spaghetti into a compact bundle. This automated process not only saves manpower, but speeds up output and controls its quality with a precision well beyond that of human operators...