Word: manual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Bill Trebileock was the outstanding fencer for the varsity with victories in all three of his foil matches. Manual Cabral led the sabremen, winning two out of three bouts, which equalized his showing against Cornell earlier in the season...
...Johansson has risen far since he began as a street paver in his native Goteborg. At 26 he swoops along the same streets in a white Thunderbird, bosses $250,000 worth of equipment in the earth-moving business that he runs on the side. The son of a manual laborer, Ingo became the pride of Sweden with a simple public weapon: a devastating right...
...desks in Peking, the Communist press could scarcely find words rapturous enough to describe the change that had come over them. The 44,000 had just completed a "year's tempering in productive work." Translation: they had been ideologically "remolded'' by a year's forced manual labor in the country...
...professor was denounced, went mad, and ended up "living in a pig sty." Lo himself was subjected to weeks of public criticism for reading pre-Communist novels rather than progressive ones. Then came the directive ordering all politically suspect students and intellectuals sent to the country to reform through manual labor...
...equal disaster. A Midwestern auto supplier planned a highly automated plant to make auto frames. But he did not allow sufficient lead time to get out all the bugs. The automated equipment was out of line, would not pass the parts along, and the company had to return to manual equipment to meet production schedules. A Los Angeles wholesale drug company automated the ordering and billing for its warehouse. But hardly had the warehouse started to operate when it had to shut down for nearly two months to straighten out its affairs after the computer had reduced the paper work...