Word: screws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...system's chief working parts (as applied to a railroad car's wheels) are a pendulum, a set of floating weights, hydraulic cylinders and motor-driven screw-jacks. Functioning faster than a human brain, the mechanism goes into action the instant the car wheels hit a bump in the track or begin to rock from side to side. By adjusting the wheels to compensate (in three thousandths of a second), the shock absorber keeps the car itself on an even keel. It also tilts the car automatically to a comfortable angle as it rounds a curve...
...Russia's defeated enemies, the Finns are paying the highest per capita reparations: $300 million, ending in 1952. But Russia, though tightening every possible screw in the treaty terms, has not sprung any surprises and has permitted the Finns, by & large, to run their own country in their own way. Under this treatment, which calls mainly for hard work, the industrious Finns have thrived...
Taciturn John Red hired no help. He slept in the stable, tended all the horses himself (which in a fashionable stable would busy five men). His equipment was primitive: because he lacked screw-eyes to hold up feed tubs, the horses ate off the floor. John rubbed all eight horses, galloped them, even shoed them. Last week, when Sunshine Park ended its 50-day meeting after going $100,000 in the red, John Red ordered another boxcar. This time he had some cash in his pants. His catch-as-catch-can stable had won eight races...
...price which a laborer is able to command on an open market, then I wasted three years in the Army, 22 months overseas, helping restrain a despot who did that very thing. ... If we people will only let it be known how we feel, maybe the proper authorities will screw up their courage to the sticking point and put John L. where he belongs-either in Russia, or behind the bars...
...Iran itself the Russians turned the screw a little tighter. The Gavam Government played along by slapping censorship on foreign correspondents, suppressing the rightist press and jailing so many rightist leaders that even moderates were afraid to file for the June 7 elections...