Word: kit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...managed quite well. But even after he became territorial Governor of New Mexico, he had to sleep with a shotgun by his side because some rowdy opponents threatened to tar and feather him. He had contempt for anyone who walked away from a fight. That included famed Kit Carson, who served under him as an Indian agent. Carson prudently ran away and hid when a gathering of Ute and Apache Indians became threatening. Meriwether suspended him forthwith. After Carson sent an abject letter of apology, Meriwether grudgingly reinstated him, but as long as the semiliterate Carson remained in his service...
...that depict 19th century ironmaking, and Bertelsmann, the Westphalian publishing house, will give hampers filled with Westphalian ham, pumpernickel and Steinhagen, a German gin. France's Banque Dupont will send a classic Eversharp desk set with two pens. Dujar-din, the cognac maker, is distributing an auto distress kit complete with blinking light. NK, Sweden's leading department store, sends out an LP record called "Music from Creative Sweden," while the Skandinaviska Bank distributes great straw plant baskets containing a miniature garden of Sweden's favorite Christmas indoor plants...
...permanent jobs; although their need is not so great, graduating collegians receive the same benefit, and the employment service has offices set up on many campuses. As further aids, the service puts out a Dictionary of Occupational Titles, which describes and classifies some 22,000 jobs, and an information kit that includes sample letters to prospective employers. The high school dropout gets even more solicitous attention...
...surrounded by cylinders of oxygen and anesthetic gases, dials and valves to indicate and control their flow rates, electronic equipment to give continuous readings of the patient's pulse, breathing rate, blood pressure, and the oxygen concentration in his blood. One recent addition to the anesthesiologist's kit is an oscilloscope screen across which as many as half a dozen of these vital indices parade in ever-changing squiggly yellow lines...
...movie's main handicap is that Director Blake Edwards (The Pink Panther, A Shot in the Dark) has put it together like a hobbyist assembling a model kit into an authentic reproduction of a 1908 Hupmobile, "Comedy is a science," he says. "The only way to learn a science is to study, and the only way to study is to look at what the old masters did and take from them. Race is an accumulation of dozens of the great comedy clich...