Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just to make sure he always knows who he is, the Zinacanteco dresses in his own distinctive, unique, and (to Western eyes) out-fashion. All the men wear short pants, even in the coldest weather. They all wear the red and white striped shirts and pink tasseled scarves their wives weave for them. And to top it off, they all wear flat- brimmed straw sombreros dangling hosts of long multi-colored ribbons behind them...
...loudspeakers alternated martial "reconstruction music" with sermonizings ("Hello, beloved people of our city, we would like to offer you some advice on our New Life"). South Korea's 200,000 civil servants have been pledged not only to live "model lives of austerity and respectability" but also to wear austerity suits, if they are men, austerity dresses, if they are women. A drab example of this junta-imposed new fashion-mostly executed in coarse corduroy-garbs a female dummy displayed in one of Seoul's main squares...
...passenger or crew member has been endangered in the air. The chief threat of radiation is to ground crews that service the planes. Crewmen are required to wear gloves and check them frequently. The airplanes are washed down with special detergent solutions, and the mops used in this process are also checked. They sometimes prove notably hot, and from them PHS has extracted the 25-odd radioisotopes that make up the most dangerous debris in a cloud of fission products...
...nowhere else. The GRADO has the smoothest, sweetest sound around and tracks at moderately low pressures. The ADC-1 is possibly a shade less heavenly in sound but offers the lowest tracking pressures ever achieved--under 1 gram, which is generally agreed to be the point of vanishing record wear...
...event, purchasing a phonograph cartridge is extremely similar to purchasing a horse--you can't judge by appearance, but you look for good characteristics and then try the thing out. With cartridges, look for a tracking pressure below 4 grams--higher will mean inordinately high record wear. Look for high compliance and low mean inordinately high record wear. Look for high compliance and low moving mass; study of specs sheets sheets will teach you what "high" and "low" are. But above all rely on your ears, as guided by those of your audio dealer, who, after all, does...