Word: mimeograph
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...freedom schools will teach basic subjects such as civics and English composition, mechanical skills such as sewing and running mimeograph machines. More importantly, Mrs. Zellner explained COFO hopes that contact with Northern students will give local Negroes an idea of the opportunities opened to them through education...
Those who get to class take copious notes, mimeograph entire courses for the shutouts. Thousands of students have given up even trying to attend lectures. They merely register in the fall, study canned notes in nearby cafes, tackle final exams in May-turning Sorbonne students into what the alarmed French press calls "test monsters...
...promoted to a clerkship, he sits at his new desk and looks calmly into the camera. He has achieved his ambition, he has won un posto sicuro. The audience senses that he will never leave it. On the sound track gradually rises the mechanical relentless rumbling of a mimeograph machine...
...Blimping Blimps. British entry is now more certain than ever, but a few battles remain to be fought. Whitehall mimeograph machines were still clanking out the communique when Ted Heath plunged into a two-week round of conferences with European ministers before formal negotiations with the Six reopen next month. However, the government's biggest battle may not take place in Brussels, but in Britain itself. Opinion polls have shown that opposition to Macmillan's "grand design" is rising steadily at home. The Commonwealth leaders' warnings reinforced an improbable but disturbing alliance between the Tory Party...
...name; on the other, he shudders at the thought of that name becoming the name for anybody else's similar product. Kodak, B.V.D., and Coca-Cola have for generations bared their teeth in courtrooms to protect their names from slipping into the generic limbo where mimeograph and nylon now languish in lower-case ignominy...