Word: papering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never got around to checking the paper of the album covers under ultraviolet light, or for watermarks. I have been told that the record itself fluoresces under UV light. Whether this is simply due to the diffracting characteristics of the record grooves being enhanced by using long wavelength light, I do not know...
...being formed to alert police to violations. Eventually, Reddin guesses, the radio watchers could add 60,000 pairs of eyes without any cost to the police-surveillance network. Another laborsaving device is a new $450,000 computer, financed by the Federal Government, that will not only cut down on paper work but also, by constantly pinpointing changing crime target areas, will help commanders assign patrols when and where they are needed...
Appearing in a paper printed by the United Command, a relatively conservative Red Guard faction, the pictures showed burned-out buildings, debris-littered streets and general devastation in Wuchow. The accompanying text shrilly blamed the destruction on a radical faction. The radicals' newspaper, printed at about the same time, blames the damage on the conservatives and claims that the fierce fighting reduced more than 2,000 buildings to rubble, left 40,000 residents homeless and killed hundreds...
Another agent of imperialism has been run to earth in Red China, and this one had infiltrated the very heart of the state security apparatus. The story, as related by the party paper Wen Hui Pao, revolves around Lo Jui-ching, Mao's purged Minister of Public Security, and Sherlock Holmes, that "watchdog of the British bourgeoisie." Lowly Lo was so hooked on Holmes he instructed his agents to emulate Sherlock's "special abilities of detection, to do cloak-and-dagger and high-class special work, to live in unusual circumstances and to be exceptional men different from...
Working is a sad thing to do in the heart. The words on the page of the book get heavier and heavier and finally melt away. Your fingers stick to the typewriter keys and the typewriter keys stick to the paper, which is swollen with water from the moisture...