Word: reread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take down rapid-fire testimony faster than a judge can bang a gavel. But until recently he was the only one in the courtroom who could decipher his notes. This resulted in long pauses in the proceedings while he flipped through the pages of his stenographic paper to reread testimony. Days might pass before typed transcripts were available. Now, even as Dagdigian's fingers touch the keys of his stenotype machine in the U.S. Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the unedited transcript, largely in readable English, appears on the screens of three IBM PC XT computers...
James Hinkle's ordeal began when he ran into a snag while loading a $400 program called Framework into his Kaypro Model 16 computer. He carefully reread the Framework instruction book for guidance but failed to find it. Stymied, the Alameda, Calif., dentist called the service number printed in the manual. The number was busy, but after dialing repeatedly over a period of several hours, Hinkle eventually made the connection--to a recorded message instructing him to call a different number, which was also busy. Says the normally mild-mannered Hinkle: "I started in the morning...
...words came haltingly, in misshapen clusters. Toad's fingers lunged and jabbed and oversteered. When he paused to reread a sentence, he found that he could not decipher it. The language came out Etruscan...
Garrison adds, "At first I was worried that other people wouldn't take my topic seriously. I was getting desperate in my search for a subject and I got the idea when I reread an article on 11th and 12th century fashion changes. A few days later, I was inspired to actually write about beards after I heard a lecture by a Princeton historian...
...personality" in the hopes of somehow catching him "off-guard," but, in the senses, rather, of a self-reading, a reading of the body of one's own writings, the writing of one's own body. "Do you need your books? What I mean is, do you reread them?" R.B.: "Never, I'm too afraid...