Word: levering
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...thick wood, about two feet squared. It was designed to fit into the floor, with hinges on the inside. In the event of a raid, the gamblers threw the phones into a hole and slammed the door shut to conceal them. In closing, the trap door also threw a lever switch to disconnect the phones...
...widely accepted reports that Russia wants Persian oil for their own mobilization effort, Frye said that they have "plenty of oil to exploit in the Soviet bloc," and that if they get control of Iran they will undersell Western oil companies and thus, "use this oil as a lever to bring economic pressure" on India, China, Indo China and other nations in that region...
Chief goals in TV City, says Charles Luckman, onetime (1946-50) president of Lever Bros., whose architectural firm (Pereira & Luckman) designed the building, are flexibility and low operating cost. The new plant is supposed to save 37% in the time necessary to put on a show. Everything-from raw materials to finished product-is under one roof: rehearsal halls, four studios, a 35-man carpentry shop, a paint shop, even a plaster shop that makes everything from fake balustrades to bottles that shatter when bounced lightly off an actor's head. CBS can also store, for quick reuse...
...campaign against Reds in the city schools, New York City's Board of Education fired six schoolteachers last week for refusing to tell a Senate subcommittee whether they were, or had ever been, party members (TIME, Sept. 22). The lever used to pry the teachers (five men, one woman) loose from their jobs: section 903 of the New York City charter, which provides that if a municipal employee refuses to answer a question about official business "on the ground that his answer would tend to incriminate him, [his] employment shall terminate." A few days later, the Board of Higher...
...this fund was set up to cover his extraordinary expenses outside his office. Dick never got a nickel of it for personal use. And we were most careful to screen the contributors. We didn't want anybody contributing who might use the fact as a lever on Dick's voting...