Word: levered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story of this encounter soon goes the rounds in Fractured Jaw, but nobody believes it until the Englishman (with the invisible assistance of a spring and lever strapped to his forearm) casually outdraws one of the fastest guns in the Territory. At that instant, of course, he wins the heart of the cutie that's known as Kate (Jayne Mansfield), but to his horror he also acquires a sheriff's star. And so the rest of the picture resolves into a daydream of how easily the West would have been won if the English, instead of mere colonials...
...story ended there, it would have had its share of irony. The Premier of Togoland, Sylvanus Olympic, against whom the plot was presumably directed, has long been a thorn in the French side. A graduate of the London School of Economics and a top African executive in Unilever (Lever Bros.), Olympio lobbied so successfully in Paris and at the U.N. that he wangled from a reluctant Paris the promise of independence...
Aligned against Negrão de Lima was a faction that included Kubitschek's kitchen-cabinet foreign-affairs adviser, pudgy Augusto Frederico Schmidt. Schmidt's clique insisted that Brazil accept Russia's repeated offers of trade and aid, largely to lever the U.S. into greater generosity. Last October the government announced it was trading 20,000 bags of cocoa for 60,000 tons of Soviet crude. But the Russian oil turned out to be the same type of paraffin-heavy crude that Brazil is already forced to export for lack of refining capacity...
CHARLES LUCKMAN, onetime wonder-boy boss of Lever Bros., has bought out Partner William L. Pereira, and each will form his own West Coast architectural business. Insiders say Luckman's razzle-dazzle rubbed against conservative Pereira...
When he has answered, he moves a lever and the cover concealing the answer falls away. If his answer is the right one and corresponds, he moves the lever horizontally. In doing this he punches a hole in his answer strip, ineradicably noting that he thought his written answer correct. This same motion advances the machine to the next frame, and at the same time changes the position of the disk so that the correctly answered frame will not appear again if the student goes more than one full circle on the disk. Even if the answer is incorrect...