Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plane, Cotton crawled back and forth between Cecil's innards and the cockpit, where he could get guidance from the ground. He was armed with the flashlight, screw driver and pliers that he always carries with him when flying. Finally he thought he had located the right relay switch. Taking a dime-store binder clip that he uses to hold papers in his documents case, Cotton ripped off one of the clasp's wire handles, stripped an equipment strap for insulation ("My hands were sweating") and inserted the wire with the pliers. "Okay, okay!" he yelled to White...
Last week the Times belatedly followed the lead of the rest of the British press. It relegated the ads to page 2 and replaced them with any newspaper's main offering: the news. Disconcerted by the front-page switch from solid blocks of type to a reasonably sprightly makeup, a Times editorial writer commented: "It's like seeing a very old lady take off all her clothes and put on a miniskirt...
...district should then have two representatives one elected with the President, one in a off-year election." Hartz answers a number of criticisms of his plan with a welter of detail and statistical data. Indeed, his plan seems almost convincing except for one point: could party machinery handle the switch to the new plan? But intra-party haggling over such a plan on a district level casts doubt on its viability. And as Hartz points out, the opportunities for gerrymandering would be magnified...
...dairyman Tevye before Broadway got to him. But the resemblance--the good humor in despair, the pleading with the marvelously impotent gods, the befuddled good intentions--is in Brecht's script as well as Kaplan's portrayal. Miss Archer has warmth, a versatile vocal range, the ability to switch swiftly between the two parts she must play, and good legs...
...that Brady was one of the founding fathers of expense-account entertaining. He shrewdly courted publicity because he felt that it was an asset in his job as a railroad-equipment salesman; most of his opulent blowouts were aimed at getting orders for brake rigging, patent couplings and switch stands...