Word: compressive
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...corners of the store, among the T-shirts and sneakers, one can still find, for example, an anachronism like the first aid kit containing only a compress bandage and a package of shell wound dressing. Those with the inclination can buy sextants, litters, bayonets, shoulder holsters, jungle hammocks, gas masks and policemen's billies. Central no longer sells dog sleds, as it once did, but the suspicious purchaser in the market for a mine detector is its ideal customer...
...best piece of writing which appears in the Lion Rampant is Carter Wilson's "Mrs. Sessions Attends Church." The story is a chapter from a novel on which Wilson is working, but it can stand by itself. Wilson's use of language is simply marvelous. He can compress a whole range of ideas into a single line. He has an acute eye for small details, but--unlike Mr. Littlejohn--also possesses artistic ability to make the detail an integral part of his characterization and plot development. He portrays his main character and the movement of her thoughts with remarkable perception...
From all the mountainous massing of material, it was Birnbaum's job to sort out and compress, to find anecdotes or facts that in a brief compass would suggest the complexity of the city and the character of his subject. And so, when this week he wrote his 22nd cover story, the story for the first time became a fully shaped article. He was not merely changing, reordering or touching up someone else's version. And as Researcher Funger double-checked his facts and figures before publication, Chicago Bureau Chief Gart was in New York helping with...
...more time to learn the same thing, and teaching may get worse. The dull hate learning more than ever, and the bright suffer because standards fall. In the end, this simply costs more money, requires more teachers, and produces fewer truly educated people. Machlup's idea is to compress the entire span of education so that students finish high school by the age of 15, and college by 18. Not only would this save $12 billion a year, he says, but it would sharply improve U.S. education...
...show because of their crude, rough-woven finish of thick wool sometimes interlaced with straw. Also highly praised was the Japanese technique of Tsuzure-Nishiki demonstrated by Hirozo Murata's silk and gold Hunting, a scene of horsemen with bows and arrows. In Tsuzure-Nishiki tradition, Japanese weavers compress the weft as it is woven into tapestry, using their fingernails cut like saw teeth...