Word: compressible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Change-minded from the beginning, he made the Press a less hectic, haphazard operation. He halved the number of editions from 16 to eight, taught reporters how to compress their coverage. He cut down on violence and crime stories, hired specialists so that a "reporter would not have to be a doctor one hour, a lawyer the next, and an engineer the following." And he never stopped making changes. Only three months ago he cut the front page from eight to five columns and put in more white space for easier reading. "This newspaper does not stand still," he said...
...allowed Gemini 7 to be moved up from its scheduled launch in late December, and gave National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials the opportunity to launch 6 and 7 nine days apart in an attempt to achieve the first meeting of manned craft in space. The challenge was to compress the normal launch preparation time so that Gemini 6 could go up while Gemini 7 was still in orbit...
...finish up a profile of Robert Coles with a neat "tag" is like trying to compress his concerns into a bon mot: you can not do it, because as a man and as a psychiatrist he avoids above all things the isolated category and the final answer. It all hangs together: the desire to report faithfully, to understand, to see the good or bad never on one side only, and to cure. Like Agee, he wants to make his eyes and voice "honest and a little clear." So watch him, and men like him; watch them, listen to them, think...
...Your problem is quite simple," George advised. "The sounds result from friction between the fleece, the wire, and the watercress. Just rub vaseline over the lambswool, compress the watercress as tight as you can." Morris made these adjustments and sure enough, the mane was utterly silent...
...into the shaft. A strip of industrial X-ray film wound around the engine is bombarded by the gamma rays streaming out from the isotope. The result is a detailed X-ray photograph of the hundreds of tough-to-get-at rotor blades that suck air into the engine, compress it and feed it to the combustion chambers...