Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempted to intervene. He flew to Belfast to lead a "back-to-work" march. Less than 300 workers joined him, and they were all pelted with garbage, eggs and tomatoes by angry Protestants. The British government increased its 15,500-man Ulster garrison by 1,000; in full battle gear, thousands of soldiers swept through Belfast, clearing the streets of the barricades. However, the U.W.C. erected new roadblocks almost as soon as the soldiers left...
...Gear with God. Keys' outfit, with its headquarters in Waterdown, Ont., now has twelve ordained chaplains who head the blue-uniformed chapel crews in the three rigs. It also includes 40 full-time evangelists and 300 part-time workers. Keys publishes a tabloid newspaper, The Highway Evangelist (circ. 105,000), ten times a year. Columns include "New Wheels" (births), "Gear Box Groanings" (illnesses), and "Silent Wheels" (deaths). There are also pamphlets laced with trucking metaphors like "highballing to heaven." The Bible is "the road map of life," and drivers are urged to "gear with God-you'll pull...
...driver applies the brakes on San Francisco's steep hills, electrical switching will also turn the drive motor into a generator. In that mode, it will act as a drag, helping to slow the trolley, much as an auto engine does while the car is coasting downhill in gear. At the same time, it will be providing power for the flywheel's generator-motor. With this system, two-thirds of the energy needed to get up the hill should be recouped on the run down...
Opponents of the proposal ask that no action be taken on the Institute until their objections have been negotiated with President Bok. Meanwhile, the University is putting into gear its slow-moving bureaucratic machinery and has begun soliciting funds for the Institute. Fund-raising should begin now because the black community needs a center for research, regardless of administrative conflicts. Approaching potential donors does not inhibit the possibility of much-needed changes in the report. For the Afro Department to fulfill its potential, Harvard should establish the DuBois Institute but should insure that a formal relationship between the Institute...
...getting colder, I went back to the house for breakfast and then went into town for groceries and some more gear (mostly in the way of streamers--artificial flies made to resemble minnows in the water and fished "wet", or under water--as opposed to being fished "dry", or on the surface of the water). I talked tackle to the clerk in the hardware store, bought what he recommended. One of the people with me, using spinning tackle, got sold something called a Super-Duper, but he was lucky enough to lose it on his third or fourth cast...