Word: employs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quebec and westward to Chicago and St. Louis, serve the nation's most highly industrialized area. The lines own millions of dollars in property (including Grand Central station and a huge chunk of Park Avenue real estate, Pennsy's Pennsylvania Stations in New York and Philadelphia), employ 184,000 workers, last year transported 80 million passengers and hauled 378 million tons of freight...
...enthusiastic supporters of the Big Green not only damaged Band instruments, but also fouled halyards on the Soldiers Field flagpole while attempting to hoist the Dartmouth flag. Carroll F. Getchell, Business Manager of the Harvard Athletic Association, described their action as "vandalism" and said that it was necessary to employ a steeplejack to restore the flagpole to working order...
...full-scale debate on "the threat to Syria's security." Said he: "The Turkish troops have apparently been given a slogan, 'To Aleppo!', which they now publicly repeat." Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko delightedly expanded the charge: "Apparently," said he, "the intention of the U.S.A. is to employ in Syria the method it resorted to in suppressing the independence of Guatemala." U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge promptly welcomed "an opportunity for a full airing of the Soviet allegations," and debate was scheduled for this week by an almost unanimous vote of the General Assembly...
Scholarship aid would not be decreased at the expense of loans, Munro asserted. "Every time costs have gone up, we have increased both loans and scholarships," he observed. He added, however, that Harvard last year used all the loan money which it had and needed to employ about $70,000 of unrestricted faculty funds...
...Dulles talks almost blithely of using tactical nuclear weapons both as a deterrent to aggression and a force to meet it. The only way to employ such weapons would be to have them already on the scene--a feat which would take a prophet to arrange--or to transport them there. The latter is made more difficult by the fact that transportation facilities have continually been cut in order to keep bomber and missile programs untouched. The former would require not only a sixth sense and an unparalleled intelligence agency, but also the manpower to maintain whatever weapons...