Word: bins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...screw that was threaded at something like a 40° instead of a 30° angle. Six dies turned out the screws, and one of the dies was faulty. The Air Force had to ground most of its jet fighters until testing machines methodically examined every screw in every bin in every aircraft plant. No one can estimate how many thousands of man-hours were wasted because of that one 10° mistake...
...hospital, Rancher Jim sullenly accepts a copy of the Gospel of John. Alone, he does some thinking. Next Sunday, Sister Kay tunes in the Billy Graham hour on the hospital radio. Jim Tyler listens, and comes to a decision. "All my life," he drawls in the climactic scene, "I bin ridin' the wrong trail. I'm turnin' back. I'm goin' God's way-I think it's goin' to be a wonderful ride...
...principal of a school in Columbia County complained: "We can't seem to get rid of the rats." In an Irwin County school's auditorium, desks had been turned over to make a bin to store the school's lunchroom potatoes ("The only place we have," said the principal...
Early in 1949 Britain's able Malcolm MacDonald, Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, brought the federation's hostile racial leaders together in a Communities' Liaison Council. On the council was the influential head of the United Malay National Organization, spruce, bespectacled, British-educated Dato Onn bin Jafaar, 54, once a violent baiter of Chinese. Several months of round-table parleys, plus the mounting Communist threat, converted Dato Onn. He publicly proclaimed: "Malays must accept as full nationals those of other races who are prepared to give their all to the country...
...characters a whacking oldtime breakfast of bacon & eggs, Author Thirkell feels bound to give credibility to the occasion by explaining that a friend of one of the guests "had a licence to keep pigs" and the host's hens "happened to be laying." A well-stuffed tea bin is hastily attributed to "hoarded American gifts," while the gay poppings of corks (which resound throughout the book) are thanks to "a pal at Portsmouth" or even "an old pal of mine, Pinky Smith [who] sends me . . . rum from the West Indies." There is also an enviable abundance of maids, nannies...