Word: folded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator. He is a small man with large red ears and heavy jowls, and long feet which stick out at odd angles when he walks. His head, covered in the back with long white hair, rests heavily on his shoulders, and when he sits, his limbs seem to fold into his body in the way that the limbs of old men do. At a dinner in his honor in Boston last week, Gruening stood almost unnoticed at the edge of the crowd; most of the 500 guests didn't recognize him, and so as they gathered in the hotel ballroom...
...compactness. When you pick it up, you no longer have to flip through the pages, with steadily increasing irritation, trying to discover where they put the cinema and theatre listings this issue (usually hidden by one of several stapled-in mimeos). It's all there in the fold-out; the thrilling prospect of another Harvard-Greater Boston week to be taken in at one glance...
Cornell refused to fold and took the lead at 75-74, on George Chapman's shot with 2:17 remaining. Dover's drive regained the lead but then Gallagher, Harvard's high scorer and rebounder for the night, fouled...
Harvard led by as many as twelve points midway through the first half and by two, 37-35 at half time. Columbia, behind Heyward Dotson, scored seven straight points at the beginning of the second half, but even then Harvard refused to fold...
...lubricating effect of long-chain polymers is also being studied in the U.S. In Dallas and Cleveland, the chemicals have been injected into sewer lines to speed the flow of wastes and thus increase the capacity of the disposal system. Dallas has reported a 2.5-fold increase in flow through a test line. California's TRW Systems has received a Navy contract to investigate the possibility of using long-chain polymers to make torpedoes run faster...