Word: tape
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...result of its economic strength, many a European nation felt confident enough to lower some of its trade barriers and chop away red tape. The Common Market (West Germany, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) in its first year was such a resounding success that Britain, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Sweden and Denmark formed their own Outer Seven trading area to enjoy the benefits of mass markets and freer trade. Said a Common Market official in Brussels: "At the start, the politicians were for European unity, and the businessmen were very skeptical. But now it is the businessmen...
Some hours later, the girl walked into her hotel room. Slowly she took off her dark glasses and peeled heavy strips of adhesive tape from her eyelids. Her night-black eyes blinked in the sudden brightness. "My God," said Actress Anne Bancroft to the fellow actor who had accompanied her. "I never knew this room was so beautiful...
Like other Sinclair novels, Theirs Be the Guilt has its Lanny Budd, i.e., a character who, when history's big scenes are played, is to be found stage center, or at least behind the arras with tape recorder. Here, this character is Allan Montague, a boy growing up on a slightly mythical Southern plantation, with a swarm of smiling Negroes in the great house-and another swarm of Negroes out in the cotton fields, where it is hard to see if they are smiling or not. Probably not. But for Allan and his dashing cousins, 'Dolph and Ralph...
...temper flared more and more frequently. He railed against the ingrained Indian habits of inefficiency, tardiness and cheerful anarchy. He stormed at the prevalence of holidays, cows and fraudulent holy men, yet did nothing about them. He pleaded with his colleagues in the governing Congress Party to abandon red tape, corruption and nepotism; they listened, and went back to their old ways...
...ride in Clay's new Lincoln, and Nivins propositioned him again, offering $100. "I tell him, like, it was $200 last time," says Clay. "I also tell him this is one record which isn't going to happen. I find out later he has a tape recorder in his clothing...