Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conditioner of sorts in Egypt's sweltering heat. Fellah (peasant) and townsman alike have worn the flowing gown since the days of the pharaohs, and no amount of cajoling by Nasser's Ministry of Culture and National Guidance has been able to convince Egyptians that they should switch to that restricting jacket-shirt-and-pants that those strange, perspiring foreigners seem to prefer...
...switch stopped economic growth, and also stunted the life of the ordinary Czech. Prices have soared 20% while purchasing power has fallen. Deliveries are slow, queues long and goods faulty; Radio Prague recently admitted that half the output of 650 kinds of industrial products are "below world levels" of quality, and that rejects cost $200 million a year. Prague, once called "the Golden City," is a mangy metropolis of sooty streets and faulty plumbing. Everywhere signs warn "Pozor pada omitka" (Beware of falling plaster). Railroads cannot haul all the coal needed for power. "What did we use before candles?" runs...
Volunteers will be working intensively registering voters until Aug.7. No one may be registered for the thirty days preceeding the primary or the regular election, so the emphasis will switch to voter education until after the party primaries, Sept...
...patient's phone and dials a number. When she hears an answering signal, she gives the department's code number for this patient. Without another word, she shoves the telephone mouthpiece into the receptacle of a Bell Dataphone attached to the cardiograph. Then she throws a switch...
...word "Repent." Fastened to the canvas is a curved sports-car horn, and by squeezing the large rubber bulb that honks it, a gallerygoer can bellow an unrepentent riposte full of good Bronx cheer. Independence Day puts a tiny Statue of Liberty atop a large black pyramid. When the switch is turned on, Miss Liberty's torch blinks redly, and an ingeniously spliced tape combines the distorted voice of Mae West with electronic sounds that convey a mounting hysteria of urban cacophony...