Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reward, the Maine Chance speedster. But reading race charts is a cold-blooded business. Sentimentalists liked Silky, the brawny, unkempt boy from the West; hunch players loved him for his heart-stopping habit of hanging back, far off the pace, and coming on in the final seconds to overhaul horses in a wild scramble up the stretch...
...year, and borrowed too heavily from this year's market. They also feel that they made it easy to postpone getting a new car by producing cars more durable than ever. Since World War II, engineers have learned to build engines that run twice as long without an overhaul; brakes have twice the stopping power and twice (40,000 miles) the life; lights, springs, tires, steering, seats and upholstery are all vastly better. "It has become fashionable not to buy a car," says a G.M. salesman with some bitterness. "Then, to prove you are really chic, you find something...
...weeks ago, the President appeared before the Congress and said that he would end inter-service rivalry and bolster the nation's military efficiency. With the passing of time, words, and appointments, it would seem that the President is unwilling or unable to take the lead in overhauling the defense system. He is, moreover, unwilling to make public the reports which show why this overhaul is so imperative...
...take us to catch up with Russia's two satellites?"). Yet even if Vanguard had been successful in its first try, even if the U.S. had put a dozen satellites into outer space, it would have minuscule meaning in a cold war that calls for a general overhaul of old habits of thought and judgment...
...will soon go broke if it cannot cut commuter service to save a minimum of $3,000,000 a year. And in the face of the "grave situation" confronting the entire industry, nine top U.S. trainmen went to the White House to beg for help to get a complete overhaul in rail regulations and rates...