Word: employs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mansion's, first helicopter landing.* But the practice descent marked something else as well. Air Pioneer Dwight Eisenhower was the first President to use a light plane (the twin-engined Aero-Commander 560) in short hops, e.g., to and from his Gettysburg farm. Now Ike is ready to employ the air age's newest child in civil-defense evacuation and in flights of convenience over Washington's heavy ground traffic, especially to and from the National Airport. The search for machine and man safe enough to ferry him took nearly four years...
Much of the testimony came from private investigators and equipment manufacturers, who were reluctant to be too specific about their clientele. Nonetheless, in closed-door testimony, the committee learned that some companies employ the devices to listen in on what their employees are saying in rest rooms, company dining rooms and elsewhere in the plant. In Los Angeles some used-car dealers bug rooms where prospective car purchasers are left with their wives; thus the salesman can pick up tips for a new pitch by listening to the family discussion of who likes what and how much the family budget...
...became mayor of Florence six years ago, bustling Giorgio La Pira summoned a city official and announced: "Your only preoccupation will be to employ for the city as many jobless as possible." When the official uneasily remarked that city funds were already overdrawn, La Pira blithely replied: "This town is dedicated to God. He never worried about money and neither shall...
...metropolitan France by appointing a grandiosely designated Committee to Safeguard Individual Rights and Liberties. A week earlier another committee, appointed by the Radical Socialist Party for a similar purpose, had thought better of going to Algeria when Minister Resident Robert Lacoste warned that he would be forced to employ thousands of police to protect them from the French colons...
...long ago a parade of witnesses before a Congressional investigating committee were using the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions about their past Communist activities. Afterwards a number of those witnesses suffered a loss in public esteem. In a few cases they suffered concrete injury because their former employers didn't want to employ them any longer. At this there were loud outcries from a number of people who consider themselves "liberals." They complained that the investigating committee had done a dastardly thing simply by asking the questions...