Word: wrapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aware of the departure from the old days when corpses' votes were stuffed into the ballot boxes by the thousands. No longer did landlords transport villagers to the polls in trucks, with their prepaid votes in hand. For the first time in a parliamentary election, veiled women in wrap-around chadors lined up with the menfolk at polling booths. Although the Shah put anti-reform Moslem mullahs (priests) under house arrest, barred political rallies, and closed up 75 Teheran dailies and weeklies, his most vociferous critics agreed that the crackdown was unnecessary...
...NEEDLE -IN -THE -HAYSTACK" FINDER was devised to eliminate dangerous bits of baling wire in cattle feed. Davis engineers wrap a coil of copper wire around a standard pneumatic conveyor pipe that carries feed from chopper to storage bin. The wire is energized to set up a magnetic field inside the pipe. When a piece of iron or steel disturbs the field, an electrical pulse triggers a device that closes off the pipe's supply of feed and opens a side slot. Out flies the baling wire, along with a small amount...
...next four hours, patrol cars howled through the streets of Caracas in pursuit of patrol cars. The army sent troops and armored cars to join the fight; cops by the hundreds chased around frantically trying to sort out friend from foe. An order went out to legitimate police to wrap white handkerchiefs around their heads. That only made them better targets. Rumors swept Caracas that the pro-Castro Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) had attacked the prison and freed all 800 inmates. The report was proved false, but the FALN rejoiced in the publicity and Communist terrorists...
...female wearer it has advantages. Depending on the wearer's particular problem, she may either remain beach-bound, confident that her figure will go undetected under such bulk, or plunge headlong into the sea, secure in the knowledge that a wet blouson clings like Saran Wrap; one fast ocean dip and what was hidden is made spectacularly manifest...
Misery of Choice. The package business, being highly competitive, is vastly inventive and rapidly changing. Increasingly, such things as clocks, toasters, shirts, ties and sweaters, which used to be sold in the open, now come wrapped by the manufacturer. Such unlikely products as peanut butter, meat tenderizer, cocktail mixes and blue cheese spread are now dispensed from aerosol cans, and the industry is working on squeeze tubes that will give forth coffee, fish bait and ski wax. "Shrink films" of plastic that mold themselves to a product's shape now protect everything from layettes to turkeys, and other films...