Word: rutting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take the most promising men from the workbench or college, and set up a systematic program to turn the brightest of them into bosses. These men are shifted from department to department to get the broadest possible view of the entire operation and to keep from getting in the rut that is frequently the penalty of over-specialization. Periodically, the men are graded by their superiors, e.g., Esso Standard Oil has an elaborate form on which a man's superiors grade him for everything from job performance to ambition, analytical ability, emotional stability, cooperation, decisiveness, coordination and responsibility...
Nagged by the thought that he might become typed as a ventriloquist and some day go stale, Winchell began taking on straight acting roles ("I want to become so flexible that I just can't get into a rut"), today does a weekly seven-minute dramatic sketch midway in his comedy show. He turns down most offers to guest-star his ventriloquist act on other television programs, but he keeps an ear cocked for calls for Paul Winchell, actor. It's not that he doesn't have enormous affection for his wooden pal Jerry, but he asks...
...Rut. Yet there were signs that some winds were blowing Rab Butler's way. "We are getting out of our immediate difficulties," said Stephen Burman, a Midlands industrialist, last week, "and we can retrieve our place as a leading world power if we get down to it. But we have had life too easy; there has been a safety-first attitude . . . Every year I send a manager either to the Continent or to the U.S. to look for the best machinery for the job we do ... but many others are in a rut and won't follow...
Heave Ho! In San Francisco, when Floyd Ford's car got stuck in a rut, he and a friend got out to push, shoved it out of the rut and over a 75-ft. cliff...
...best route out of this rut is a system of fewer papers graded at a higher standard. At present, Freshmen write a short paper every two weeks for Gen. Ed. Ahf--on a subject usually unrelated to the rest of their work. If they could offer a Social Science or Humanities paper to Ahf in lieu of one of these two weeks assignments, a part of the paper load would disappear. The section man in the first course could comb the offering for content and ideas, the Ahf man for writing and expression...