Word: label
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barely passes for an M.D. One day Jerry, stranded in the desert, spots a used-car dump and goes helling home in a rod that is hotter than he knows-a car used to test the effects of radiation in an atomic explosion at nearby Los Alamos and still labeled "Radioactive." Actually, the contamination has worn off. but when Jerry sees the label he collapses...
...Fastest Since Feller" is the label being applied to the Baltimore Orioles' burly young righthander...
...more examination was given the act it became clear that obeying it was a physical impossibility. The president of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, for example, estimated that it would cost a million dollars simply to label the books in his college library in accordance with...
...Murphy meant them, these sentences are not at all contradictory. The knowledge of Communism to which he refers is the kind held by every homegrown demagogue who can "spot a Red when he sees one" and is quick to pin the label on even some of the ones he can't see. But the more responsible agencies of government long ago recognized the extent to which they must rely on the academic world for a knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of the nation's enemies. Symbols of this policy, begun long before World War II, are institutions such...
...this game would disrupt the functioning of the U.S. Government. At week's end Senate Republican Leader Knowland defended President Eisenhower's stand and called McCarthy's position "dangerous and doubtful." New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith went further. "Beyond belief" was Smith's label for McCarthy's contention that all federal employees had a duty to report to him any information that, in the employee's judgment, indicated illegality or impropriety in the Executive Branch. Smith also attacked McCarthy's refusal to give his committee's information to McClellan. "Every...