Word: directs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place too great an importance on the foreign car switch may be a grave error. The one I purchased included extras such as windshield wipers which never worked, directional signals which didn't direct and foot pedals which were no larger than a Grade A egg. I now drive a finned Plymouth...
Waiting for Trouble. In similar fashion, the dates of Vice President Nixon's visit to Latin America were well known in advance, and skilled agitators had only to direct a directionless mob to appropriate targets (see THE HEMISPHERE). In France, quite a different set of ambitious men (not Communist at all) anxiously watched the discontent that had long been fermenting in the exasperations of a 20-year recessional of unwon wars, in an army's disgust at political restrictions on all-out colonial defense, in a paratrooper mentality that blamed all military frustrations on the cynical surrenders...
...believe we must have simple and direct channels of command," said the Army's General Omar Bradley. "This proposed change will provide in being an organization in peacetime which is prepared to function immediately in case of war." Right behind Bradley came Admiral Arthur Radford, a leader in the Navy's 1945-47 fight against military unification, who began changing his mind about reorganization during his 1953-57 terms as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "I don't know what is coming in the next ten years," said Airman Radford, "but there are going...
...business, suggested that President Eisenhower use his influence to get a one-year moratorium on price and wage hikes. But the idea of a price-wage freeze got little support from the meeting's free enterprisers, who had no enthusiasm for urging the President to take such a direct hand in the wage and price process, even on a voluntary basis...
...William O. Neale, vice president for sales of Los Angeles' Harger-Haldeman, Plymouth-Chrysler-Imperial agency. Wrote Neale: "The fact is, our fellows don't spend time talking about the recession. They're too busy doing something about it-with phone calls, personal letters, direct-mail pieces. We'd like to invite you to drop into either of our showrooms, so we can sell you a car. (In fact, a salesman will be calling you today for an appointment.)" The Journal printed the letter in its letters-to-the-editor column, with the dry comment...