Word: manual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were also some questionable "shop practices," said Solomon, such as the Willow Run workers' habit of making "manual changes" in time cards to show credit for time not actually worked. Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders, who drops his Rs in New England fashion, asked to have "shop practices" spelled. Explained he: "There are differences in pronunciation in different parts of the country...
...that a most flourishing state may stand and best be maintained with full liberty in religious concernments." A little later he got a message to call Operator 25. Shouldn't the quotation read, she asked politely, "that a most flourishing civil state may stand?" He found a state manual, looked it up, and called back to tell Operator 25 she was right. He asked how she had known. She explained that she lived near the State House and walked by it almost daily...
...house roof watching the Trappists (Father Merton included) "employing energies in direct relation to the needs of the hour," the needs being to harvest a crop of tomatoes. These monks, who would put any union-scale group of laborers (or choir Benedictines) to shame with the zeal of their manual labor, would certainly be startled to hear that to become Trappists they had first to be members of an elite...
Photographic techniques often underscore the picture's irony, as when the drill diagrams in an army manual form regiments and march off the page. The English sub-titles are adequate, although German students seem to laugh more than anyone else...
...know the modern world least. "We planned to include a report on a soccer match," sighs Editor Bacci. "But the author, a most brilliant Latin writer, found he did not know enough about soccer. The report will be published as soon as the author, who is now studying a manual on how to play soccer, acquires the technical knowledge to describe what is happening on the field...