Word: fold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What few main-line Republicans suspected when they went along with Goldwater was that the 1964 disaster would end by encouraging the conservative rump instead of shaming it back into the fold. The Democrats, by contrast, have weathered countless crises of North South schizophrenia and myriad lesser spats and have repeatedly proved themselves capable of closing ranks before the voters go to the polls...
...French hierarchy is well aware that the process of drawing the workers back into the church's fold will be long and difficult. Among French workers nowadays, according to a recent government survey, the percentage of practicing Catholics runs from 2% to 10% ; many millions can quite reasonably be called pagan...
...week, in a swift and surprising reversal of form, the five ended their hesitation. At a two-day meeting at the Common Market's Brussels headquarters, they finally stood up to Charles de Gaulle, laid down firm but polite terms aimed at coaxing the French back to the fold...
...Austria to a glass-and-concrete factory outside Stuttgart, where 2,400 workers now turn out 56 cars a day-every one handmade and every engine stamped with the initials of the master mechanic who assembled it. Porsche sales last year reached $40 million, a 350-fold increase over...
...makes the U.S. motorist fume, but it is music to Gulf & Western Industries, Inc. As a leader in the U.S.'s $7 billion-a-year market for auto parts, G. & W. lives on breakdowns and damage. It lives well: since 1958, it has multiplied its annual sales 22-fold to $175 million, acquired 57 companies that make products as diverse as guitars, jet-engine parts and survival equipment for spacemen. Last week, in its most ambitious diversification, G. & W. made a deal to merge with New Jersey Zinc Co. If shareholders of both companies approve as expected...