Word: manifolded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patric lived for three months in the U.S. the way a poor Japanese lives in Japan. This was to save money for the trip, and also to condition himself for Japanese life. He slept in the front seat of his car, ate canned salmon heated on the exhaust manifold (food cost: 25? a day), pressed his trousers by using the running board and a towel for the ironing board; alto gether saved $375. Then he worked his way across the U.S. to his native North west, stopped at the Nippon Yusen Kaisha office in Seattle and paid...
...World," and sprinkled with un-Shakesperian asides, he unfolds 232 pages of diagrams and diagnoses. He also expounds for pages on three of the most treacherous openings ever devised: the Edinburgh Single, a deciding factor in more match and tournament games than any other known opening; the Octopus, whose "manifold tentacles . . . have ensnared many of the game's ablest critics"; and Oliver's Twister, a baffler ever since Manhattan's Oliver J. Mauro laid down its basic "theme" some years...
...find excuses for your own inaction in the other manifest and manifold errors of your Government? Do you allow the annoyance of a truculent bureaucracy to deflect you from your duty...
Smashing and Quietude. Meanwhile around the speechmakers, the big university was going about its manifold chores without much rhetoric and with obvious Americanism. In a special building California's $1,150,000 atom-smashing cyclotron was harnessed to the militarily secret imagination of Nobel Prizeman Ernest Orlando Lawrence. The Signal Corps invaders of the Agricultural College at Davis had not disturbed the quiet of university researchers. They had just discovered, for instance, that of each sugar-beet seed's five segments, only one need be planted-thus avoiding the wearisome labor of thinning...
Land, Air, Sea. At Allied headquarters in North Africa, an imposing assemblage of military chiefs conferred.* Their presence underscored the problems which will have to be solved: problems of supply, manifold and coordinated operations on land, in the air, on the sea. For the moment, the air offered their major opportunity. Allied planes had the edge over the Luftwaffe. Axis positions, concentrated as they are, are an airman's oyster. Axis ports are few: Bizerte, Tunis, Sousse, Sfax and Gabés-none of them large, all within 200 miles of each other, all within easy bombing range...