Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon Cabinet seems to be constructed more of grey fieldstone than glinting steel and glass, so does its architect. If it is short on commitments on specific issues, so is Nixon. If seven of the twelve live west of the Alleghenies, that was the source of the votes. Though a son of the Pacific Coast and a man of the Atlantic, Nixon has always had his political heart in the Midwest...
...patient opened his mouth, he thought of taking off his glasses to avoid looking at the steel glint in the dentist's eyes. But before he could, the rapid-fire, machine-gun-bullet orgasms of pain were exploding in his jaw. Jab! Jab! Jab! The patient jammed his eyes shut. His whole body was tight, as time after time he felt the needle piercing deep into his gums, driving its payload of novocaine into his bloodstream. "Just relax," he heard the nurse saying. The injections were done. He slumped back into the chair...
...psychiatrist and I were posed in the Couch-Chair-Say-The-First-Thing Motif. He was bent over his pad like a dead Hebraic scholar, but his mind and pen were spring and steel, ready to snap...
Military and civilian security officials in Greece, they claimed, were regularly using "medieval tortures" on prisoners. Marketakis, a member of an anti-junta resistance organization in Crete, described beatings with sandbags (which leave no marks) and with plaited steel wire. Meletis, a member of the leftist Greek Patriotic Front, spoke of the fa-langa, in which the victim is strung up head down, then has the soles of his feet beaten. "If you refuse to confess or if you pass out," said Meletis, "they set you down with numbed feet on a cement floor on which cold water has been...
...outlook for capital spending has improved largely because general business conditions are looking better. Demand for steel is strong; output has climbed for four straight weeks. Sales of 1969-model autos have been racing at a record annual rate of 10.3 million cars (see story, p. 94). New factory orders rose 4% in October, the biggest improvement this year. Sales of new houses are increasing despite punitive price tags and pumped-up mortgage rates. Housing starts will probably rise from 1,290,000 in 1967, to 1,500,000 this year. Building-industry analysts anticipate about...