Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must be said that since the time of Trotskyism no other opportunist trend has ever resorted to such a monstrous method, which completely distorts truth. It hides its capitulatory essence behind "ultrarevolutionary" slogans, playing on the feelings of the masses. It would be extremely harmful to try to fit revolutionary processes in this extremely varied world into ready molds, as the dogmatists are trying to do. Far from advancing the cause of world revolution, they are throttling...
...greatest obstacle to full automation in the composing room is "justification"-ending lines evenly at the right-hand margin. When the operator of a typesetting machine nears the end of a line, he estimates whether the next word will fit the remaining space. If it is a little too short, he fattens the line by adding spacers between preceding words or letters. When the next word is too long, he cuts it in two and adds a hyphen...
...when Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Muñoz Marin decided to sell off four manufacturing plants started by the local government in a fit of socialist experimentation, the Ferrés again turned adversity to advantage. Unlike other bidders, who were interested only in the government's moneymaking cement plant, the Ferrés agreed to buy unprofitable clay, glass and paper plants as well. By bringing in outside experts and training local workers in modern techniques, the Ferrés had all the plants in the black within a year. Today, wages in the Ferr...
Rewards for Billboards. Other oathtaking Governors, with perhaps less at stake in national terms, tailored their cloth to fit their own political patterns...
...differences with the West, Khrushchev hoped that 1963 would solve "urgent problems fraught with new crises," a bit of doubletalk about Berlin that could fit any eventuality. The first would probably come at next week's congress of the East German Communist Party, which Khrushchev will attend...