Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into a fire in order to provide food for his master, and, as the flames flared up, was transformed into a vision of the Buddha?a vision the Vietnamese monks were to borrow for their own purposes. Accompanied by his favorite monks and nuns, Buddha was content to be fed by local admirers and once scandalized his band by eating in the home of a courtesan. His last incarnation completed, at 80 Buddha lay down in a sola grove to die, passing out of the endless cycle of life into the great nirvana...
...aides were under threat of death for most of their three-month captivity, at one point were told to eat slices of an American flag ("We just made like we were chewing it," said Vice Consul David Grinwis. "It was a very durable flag"). Early last week, Gbenye himself fed the fires by telling a cheering crowd: "As fetishes we will wear the hearts of Belgians and Americans; we will dress in the skins of Americans and Belgians...
...copy, the Associated Press, which must cope with haste to a greater degree than most news-gathering agencies, decided to enlist the aid of a computer. From ditors and staff writers all over the U.S., the A.P. assembled a list of 469 hackneyed words and phrases. These were fed into a Univac 1105, along with 375,000 words of wire copy to be sifted for those same cliches...
...been allowed inside the production area, and a sign at Old Hickory announces: "Our competitor is a nice fellow-smart too-so let him figure his own way." One reason for Du Pont's anxiety: computers that it rented from the Pentagon to calculate potential markets and profits fed back the prediction that world demand for shoes will exceed the supply of hides by as much...
...called for a special printing process. For the U.S. editions, the map was printed in eight colors-yellow, magenta, green, grey, gold, pink, blue and black. To get sharper differentiation between the lines and patterns, it was printed as if it were a piece of fine art-by sheet-fed offset on heavy paper-and then was bound with the rest of the magazine, which came off rotary letter presses. For the overseas editions, which are always printed offset, the problem was different: press limitations prohibited use of eight colors, so a pattern had to be devised...