Word: compressive
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...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...
Implosion. Another nugget of information in the AEC report was word that the Chinese depended on an implosion (inward-striking detonation) of chemicals to compress their U-235 and make it fission. Such a device is more effective than shooting two chunks of fissionable material toward each other in an apparatus like a gun barrel, as was done in the U.S. bomb exploded over Hiroshima. The U.S. also used the implosion method in its earliest nuclear weapons. Although a surprising number of commentators assumed that use of implosion showed advanced skill by the Chinese, the AEC did not agree...
...Word Magic." To many scholars, all slogans are bad slogans. George Mowry, dean of social sciences at U.C.L.A., argues that they "compress a lot of truth into what is basically an untruth." Indeed, for the majority of voters not inclined to analyze issues for themselves, slogans are a welcome substitute for logical argument. "Most people would rather die than think," says Bertrand Russell. "In fact, some do." Russell's own ban-the-bomb marchers, mindlessly chanting "Better Red than dead," prove his point...
...company, where she puts in about 19 hours of preparation for each half-hour show. If she is going to flute a mushroom on the air, she has to flute one in rehearsal too. For dishes that take time, she cooks to various stages beforehand, so that she can compress an entire process of, say, four hours, into 30 minutes. By the end of a show about the preparation of one duck, for example, there will be a duck in the oven, another freshly stuffed on the counter, a stand-by duck in the ice box, and perhaps a misfired...