Word: choking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expert. Price is still so innocent of mechanical lore that friends kid him about the time his car stalled in Pittsburgh's rush-hour traffic. Mrs. Price had to lift the hood and get it started, because Price didn't know how to work the jammed automatic choke. But what unscientific President Price demonstrates is that management is a science of its own, and that, in a mass-production society based on interchangeable parts, the top managers are also interchangeable-when shaped and machined to the new standards of Big Business management...
Wired & Whipped. Both Bailey and Sampson faced opposition from the Malan government, whose nightmare is "whites drowning in a black sea." The government threatened to choke off Drum's paper supply for such things as printing pictures of Eleanor Roosevelt shaking hands with a Negro. Police have also taken to shadowing Drum staffers, checking on where they go and whom they see. Despite the threats, Drum has made its mark with a series of spectacular exposes...
...when they overstepped themselves-with being anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic ... I leave the answers to those two to my good friends, Cardinal Spellman, Rabbi Silver and Bernard Baruch (see above) . . . When I contemplate this series of completely false accusations against me, I get so angry I sort of choke...
Then, one Technicolored day, in walks Rock Hudson, a handsome merchant skipper. The Scarlet Angel's boss whispers to Yvonne: "He flashed a bankroll that could choke you." Replies Yvonne: "That's a pleasant way to be strangled...
...their menacing gestures the Russians stopped just short of the real provocation: shutting off all traffic to the 2,000,000 West Berliners, who occupy an island of freedom 100 miles beyond the Western frontier. Perhaps, by a sort of creeping blockade, they hoped to choke off Berlin inch by inch, in such a way that the West would have a hard time finding the crucial point to make a stand. At any rate, beneath the bluster, there was a canny control at work too-as if the Russians hoped to achieve the maximum of mischief short...