Word: insertion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...system, the original material would be commercially transferred onto a new type of film. Home viewers would then insert cartridges of the film in a breadbox-size playback unit, which would send audio-visual signals into the antenna terminals of the TV set. A seven-inch cartridge, resembling a discus, could play up to 30 minutes in color, an hour in black and white. Now called Electronic Video Recording (EVR), the system may reach the U.S. market...
...undoubtedly the most thrilling aspect of the archives are the documents which Trotsky has written and then revised. When he wanted to insert an extra paragraph into an article or chapter, he would type it out on a separate piece of paper and the paste it on to the edge of the original. This appendage could then be folded over to leave the document in its original size. In many cases the urge to make additional points led him to add appendage to appendage until a document, which can be folded down to a convenient eight inches by ten inches...
...believed that the United States could stimulate effective resistance to communist pressures elsewhere only to the extent that it observed a certain prudent detachement, endeavoring to release useful energies and impulses in others, not trying to create them or to insert our own in their place...
What makes Pickett a juggler is a corps of capable sophomores this year whom he can insert at any position when he repositions veterans for strategic reasons. In some meets, he'll match Harvard strength with enemy strength; in others he'll attack weakness to get sure points. The sophomores will fill holes in each case...
...houses also zipped through the $58,067,472,000 defense-appropriations bill, which includes-for no ascertainable reason-a rider that gives the President the unrequested power to activate some 1,000,000 military reservists without first declaring a national emergency. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen even managed to insert an amendment in a public-works bill that authorizes the President to impound 20% of the funds Congress allows for domestic programs because of the "unpredictability" of the war in Viet Nam. The Senate approved it, even though it was simply a Dirksen exercise in oneupmanship. If the House agrees...