Word: inspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their specific mission, explained Schnuffler Cohn, was to "see if there's waste and mismanagement, and to pin down responsibility." They also planned to question possible security risks among employees of the U.S. High Commission for Germany, and, as an added assignment, they would inspect the books on the shelves of USIS libraries. Cohn and Schine reckoned it would take them only about ten days to accomplish their staggering mission...
Fifty girls from a physics class at Smith College will descend on Harvard today to inspect the University's cyclotron. They will be in Cambridge for the day, accompanied by their physics professor, and will also visit M.I.T. briefly...
Exciting as their first visit to the White House was, the young Eisenhowers had more important business on their minds. On their very first afternoon in Washington, David and Barbara Anne went off to inspect the zoo, chaperoned by a sheepish Secret Serviceman (Mamie and Barbara Eisenhower went to a matinee). David thought the zoo was fine until a lion roared at him. And though Barbara Anne wandered fearlessly into the lion house, David stayed outside, peered through the door. "I can see all right from here," he explained. When he got back, young David had some afterthoughts about...
...white gloves, wore them constantly, saw to it that each was dipped in antiseptic after being worn. Her chauffeur had to wear a clean uniform every day. When friends sent her flowers, one of her servants would hold the box under water, open it enough to remove and inspect the card, and then quickly throw box, flowers and card away...
...Independence, Mo., Harry S. Truman dropped into a local automobile agency to inspect his latest purchase: a $4,000-plus black Chrysler sedan, with chrome-wire wheels, electrically operated windows and seat controls. "It's got so many gadgets on it," said Motorist Truman, "I'll have to go to engineering school so I can handle it." Shortly afterward, the new owner backed the car out of the agency garage, whooshed straight across the street and rammed lightly into a utility pole on the curbing...