Word: taping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...machine in this unique operation is the teletypesetter perforator, which looks like a glorified electric typewriter. With it, by pressing the correct keys, a 'typesetter punches combinations of holes in a narrow paper tape. When completed, this tape contains not only the holes which correspond to all the words and punctuation in the story he has set but also holes which control the spacing so that every line will come out the right length. When this tape is fed into a transmitter it 1) makes correctly-spaced typewritten copy for our proofreaders and make-up men; 2) reproduces itself...
...liked the Russians enormously, admired their unfailing kindness as hosts, was touched by their uncomplaining acceptance of endless labor for pathetic rewards. In other ways, too, her reactions were typical of U.S. visitors to Moscow. She was annoyed by the sloppy workmanship everywhere, by the suffocating snarls of red tape, by one-party ballots which made elections a farce, by the fear of ordinary citizens to speak without looking over their shoulders. She saw prostitutes solicit openly (the Soviet Government proudly claims that it has ended prostitution in Russia), found beggars everywhere, watched black-marketeers operating in public markets...
Other traditional editorial blasts were levelled against University Hall, for supporting a miasma of red tape, and against those who 1) didn't participate in Union activities, and 2) didn't turn out for the various football rallies...
...Uruguay raced in flood. But on the bridge Argentine troopers and Brazilian marines stood at immaculate attention. A strapping figure in the uniform of an Argentine general, and a tired little man in a dark civilian suit advanced toward each other. At midstream the two men snipped a ceremonial tape, then embraced. Thus, last week, after many postponements, Argentina's President Juan Perón and Brazil's President Caspar Eurico Dutra inaugurated the Augustin Justo bridge that links their countries...
...According to canon law, this would have permanently disqualified him for sainthood: there is a rule that no public prayers may be said to the departed until Rome has approved the beatification. But in 1669 Pope Clement IX delighted even Switzerland's Protestants by cutting ecclesiastical red tape and authorizing Nicolas de Flue's beatification...