Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long days last week, while ashes from chain-smoked cigarettes dribbled down the front of his blue suit, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson faced up to a drumfire attack on defense policy directed at him by Democrats on the Senate's airpower subcommittee. Sometimes he answered questions with the weary patience of a father harassed by a child; sometimes he wandered unresponsively, while senatorial patience frayed. But always-with remarkable success for Engine Charlie Wilson-he fought to keep a curb on his shop-foreman's tongue...
...criticism of the code-with its reserve clause, its waiver rule, its draft, which all hamper the individual's bargaining power-Professor Gregory feels that baseball would die without it. "As a sport," he says, "baseball, like the Army, must be authoritarian, with a definite chain of command." That players have improved their status so steadily is a tribute to their stubborn pursuit of the dollar and the support of their fans, which has given baseball "a significance quite out of proportion to its size...
Most Government economists reckon that the big strike's chain reactions will be confined largely to steel-producing areas; the overall U.S. economy is too strong to be seriously staggered. A two-week strike, say the economists, would have very little effect on manufacturing because inventories (except in specialized heavy construction) are comfortably large. On the union side of the picture, many a millhand, his vacation pay already earned, is delighted to escape the blistering heat of the plants in July...
...course of his wide-ranging fantasies, the hero of James Joyce's Ulysses imagined himself invested with the scarlet mantle and gold chain of the Lord Mayor of Dublin. To Joyce, Leopold Bloom's dream was doubly fanciful because-he was a Jew−and what chance would a Jew have of becoming major of Dublin town...
...most deeply into fundamentals have in most cases come up with the richest booty. Du Pont's nylon came from basic research into molecular structures started in 1927 by Du Pont's late famed Scientist Wallace Carothers. When Dr. Carothers found a way to simulate the long-chain molecules found in natural silk, Du Pont applied his findings to the development of nylon, which reached mass production in 1939, after five years and $27 million for applied research. European scientists were quick to capitalize on Carothers' findings, developed other synthetic fibers. When Du Pont used Carothers...