Word: machinistic
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...Tufts College, in Medford, Mass., Pride was a B-plus engineering student when World War I came. There was no family discussion; Mel simply showed up at home one day in a sailor suit. He had enlisted in the Reserve as a machinist's mate second class, with the specific intention of becoming an aviator. After ground training at M.I.T. he went to Pensacola and learned to fly the Navy's N-9-an old Jenny dressed up with a pontoon and wing floats. Commissioned a Reserve ensign, Pride was designated Naval Aviator...
...Chicago Superior Court Mary Doornbos, 36, demanded full custody of her son David, 5, on the ground that he was not her husband's child but the product of artificial insemination, to which her husband, Machinist George Doornbos, 48, had consented. Further, she asked the court to approve artificial insemination...
Several days later, at noontime, Hewitt as usual went off by himself to the canteen for lunch. His workmates, members of the A.E.U., gathered for a quick meeting. The public outcry was beginning to tell on them. Machinist Stan Wetton got up and said: "Our attitude has become un-Christianlike." The other men nodded. Before they adjourned, the men voted to thank Ed Boyce for being such a good steward-but also to lift the ban on Hewitt. When Hewitt came back from lunch and climbed into his cage, Boyce walked over and said...
...police headquarters the stranger told his story: He was a 28-year-old Hungarian named Imre Komoroczky, for six years a machinist at the Communists' prized Matyas Rakosi Engineering Works near Budapest. Though even his parents were ardent Communists, Imre took a dim view of the New Order. Once before, in 1950, he had tried to escape to the West in a packing crate, but the crate had broken open during transshipment in Prague. Imre was seized and returned to Hungary to spend 14 months in prison...
...stranded motorist, an unemployed machinist named Everett Silas Miller, did not answer until he had jerked open the door of her car and jumped in beside...