Word: fold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe this summer. The later articles will take up the story country by country.)A cyclist in France puts the finishing touches on his luggage. Cobblestones have an insidious way of shaking it loose. They also shake loose all the screws, and bolts on the bicycle, and occasionally they fold the frame up like an accordion...
...short term solution, however, Professor Perkins offers the following suggestions: (1) get through traffic routed through the Square in sunken arteries, (2) remove the subway kiosk and relocate bus stops, (3) increase parking areas ten-fold...
Since May, U.S.-Argentine trade has increased roughly 50%. The Argentines are gradually paying off their short-term U.S. debt. Perón has told Bruce that Argentina, which once more is trading at world prices, will shortly fold up its state-trading agency...
Anti-Communists hoped that the casino would fold, and with it the republic's leftist regime. Gildo Gasperoni had been heard to say: "If the casino succeeds we will be all right. If it doesn't, then we pack our bags and go." If Gasperoni went, thought San Marinese, Maxim might also go. He might even go in a cloud of sulphur smoke...
Most encouraging factor was the appearance of the $200 (or, rather, the ($199.95) television set on the market. It was a good set and, under liberalized installment-buying regulations, within reach of most U.S. pocketbooks. Commercial sponsors, after their summer desertion, were beginning to come back to the fold-TV networks have more business scheduled for this autumn than ever before...