Word: employs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...directors to back down; a majority of the hospital's other staff members joined in protest. Local organizations passed pro-Hodge resolutions. Seven local Protestant churchmen sent the directors an open letter: "[Hodge] has been judged, punished and returned to us . . . Shall we deny him any occasion to employ his special talent for constructive enterprise...
Tonight's game will match two of New England's strongest defensive teams. The varsity, which held a powerful Pennsylvania squad to 54 points, will employ a shifting man to man defense. Amherst, using a zone in all ten of its games this season, ranks first in the country defensively among small colleges...
...France there are 208,250 building contractors, 90% of whom employ fewer than six workers. The smallest contract is sublet to a myriad of tiny enterprises. If they have the luck to find an honest contractor, the French couple may have the pleasure of watching squads of carpenters, masons, plasterers and plumbers move on and off the job with scant regard for each other or for the order of their work, and of seeing walls lie bare for months at a time. The average time to complete a French house: 2½ years...
...storytelling, moreover, The Flowering Peach runs aground even before the rains have ceased. The characters' little habits become drearily habitual; the philosophizings employ too many and too unmagical words; the squabbles merely repeat themselves. Odets falls into a common trap: he cannot convey the peevish boredom of his floating prison without turning boresome himself. But what stems in part from lack of movement stems from lack of meaning also. Writing his play on an intellectual milk diet. Odets tries vainly for the rich ferment of wine...
...United States enough to make serious concessions in its own restrictions. A Russian citizen in this country today has about as much chance of spying on American industry as a Yale man with a crew cut in the Urals. If the USSR intends serious spy work, it would hardly employ Russian nationals...