Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steel is poured into the mold, it solidifies and inches downward, emerging as a glowing sheet of steel at the bottom of the mold, where it is cooled further and chopped into slabs for convenient handling. Meanwhile, molten steel is steadily added from above so that a continuous ribbon of steel is produced. The continuous casting process can be almost completely automated, produces a uniform grade of steel, and in German plants has saved as much as $10 a ton in production costs of regular carbon steel. Though a handful of other U.S. steelmakers had already begun experimenting with continuous...
...Actually," she tells her audience, "I'm here on missionary work for the Tax Department." She wears, at times, a skintight gown with a huge rose of ribbon on her derriere. She runs her hands down her sides. "It's about the size of one leg of Jackie Gleason's trousers," she confides. Then she's off into song, with an impression thrown in-of Elizabeth Taylor, for example, singing I Cain...
...blindfold checked. Then Rosa opened a book at random, passed the fingertips of her right hand lightly over the page, and fluently read the text aloud. She did the same with a newspaper. Handed a snapshot, Rosa stroked the surface and said: "What a cute little girl with a ribbon in her hair and her face tilted upward...
...things actually were going last week in the Congo's copper-rich Katanga province, where the U.N. was waging war with Tshombe's breakaway regime for the third time since September 1961. In two weeks, the tough U.N. troops had seized a steadily lengthening ribbon of rail lines and nearly every major population center in the province. Only the western copper town of Kolwezi remained in Katanga's grip; it was defended by 2,000 boozy gendarmes, 100 of Tshombe's white mercenaries, and a smashing blonde ambulance driver known as "Madame Yvette," who sauntered about...
...pages of full-color illustrated helps, a Biblical time chart in color, an entirely new collection of modern full-color photographs, and an eight-page, full-color selection of maps"-all for only $8.50 in the edition with "French Morocco Black Leather semi-overlapping covers, red under gold edges, ribbon marker, boxed." Harper & Row has a children's Bible with 44 pages of new Children's Helps, "the first set of helps that children can use fully and understand easily." Harper also claims its "black watermarked sealskin is the only such binding announced by any RSV publisher." Cleveland...