Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guilty Cylinder. At the scene of the crash of Flight 476. the CAB men searched out every scrap of wreckage. Then all parts that might be concerned with the accident were taken to American Airlines' Overhaul and Supply Depot at Tulsa, where the No. 2 (righthand) engine, with its adjacent landing gear and wing structure was assembled in flight position. By this time the CAB detectives had a good notion where the trouble started, but they came to no decision until masses of evidence had been accumulated...
...Issue Deferred. Significantly, the new government's announced aims did not include any basic overhaul of church-state relations. An attempt to disestablish the Roman Catholic Church was one of the main causes of Peron's fall, and Aramburu apparently prefers to leave the church's future status to his elected successor...
...great Escorial palace proclaiming to himself: "I am I plus my circumstances." Looking up at granite reminders of bygone imperial glory and reflecting on the fresh memory of Spain's ignominious defeat in Cuba, José Ortega y Gasset decided that the circumstances of Spanish life demanded drastic overhaul. For 300 years, he wrote, Spain had been sinking into a "long coma of egotism and idiocy . . . Today we are not so much a people as a cloud of dust that was left hovering in the air when a great people went galloping down the high road of history...
...movement to revise the loyalty program began in 1954 with citizen groups connected with Freedom House and the Fund for the Republic calling for a complete overhaul of its operations so as to prevent abuses of the rights of government workers. These protests evidently had little effect on the administration until last January when Harry Cain, a member of the Subversive Activities Control Board, publicly attacked the loyalty program in a speech in Spokane, Wash. Cain, unable to gain Administration support, continued to press for action, lobbying actively for a bi-partisan commission to review the operation of the loyalty...
...Hard, Hard!" How can Harriman overhaul Stevenson for the Democratic nomination? How, if nominated, could he have a prayer against Dwight Eisenhower? For his answers, De Sapio can only draw on his rugged New York political schooling. In discussing the national situation, he likes to dwell on his experiences with Republican Tom Dewey (De Sapio insists that Dewey, not Candidate Irving Ives, was the real loser in the 1954 gubernatorial election...