Word: employs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some representatives, although reluctant to appear outspoken on the question, intimated that extreme pressure had been exerted upon established agents to force them to join the corporation, with thinly-veiled threats of loss of employ for failure to comply...
...Evanses also suggest lightly that the purity once associated with a "Boston accent" might be traced to the assumption "that the Cabots, in speaking to God, would naturally employ an impeccable diction." They point out that the situation described by the hackneyed "eternal triangle" is "scarcely more unendurable than the phrase," and take special pains to blister John Foster Dulles for his "journalese": "It was not some petty, pretentious scribbler who invented 'massive retaliation' and 'agonizing reappraisal' or spoke of 'unleashing' Chiang Kai-shek...
...paid $100 apiece in honor of Hoffa's 25 years in the labor movement (proceeds for a children's home in Israel). Scores of important names in the Midwest seized the chance to shake the hard, square hand of Hoffa. And though General Motors, Ford and Chrysler employ only 500 Teamsters (out of a total payroll list of 800,000), the auto industry sent big men: a General Motors vice president, a Ford vice president, and a Chrysler industrial-relations executive. One reason: Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters truck most of America's cars from assembly points...
...first to say that with the difficulty that many of the Administration proposals have run into, that somewhere along the line I have not done as well as might have been done." But, he continued, in a terse summation of his unchanging attitude towards Capitol Hill, "I never employ threats. I never try to hold up clubs of any kind. I just say, 'This is what I believe to be best for the United States,' and I try to convince people by the logic of my position. If that is wrong politically, well then I suppose you will...
...passes by R.A.F. fighter planes to scare the rebels into pledging loyalty to the red flag of the Sultan. In the House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd was the very model of long-distance assurance. "It would be an example of military futility," he intoned, "to seek to employ ground forces in those temperatures in desert areas...