Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building up vast cottage industries. Communes are now in the midst of a mass drive to produce pig iron and steel in tiny handmade blast furnaces of a kind developed by Chinese artisans in the Middle Ages. In China's desolate northern marches Mongol and Tartar women sweat over more than 5,000 furnaces which they have built in the last few weeks, and in Honan 440,000 furnaces (operated by peasants who have already put in a ten-hour day in the fields) allegedly turned out 300,000 tons of steel in October alone...
...since 1950, while Hearst's 17 newspapers have been collectively losing ground. Hearst hopes to pump new life into the old Mechanics, but to the staff's handymen the transaction was a sad event. Mourned one of them: "When I think of the blood, sweat and tears that have gone into every issue...
...time is not so far off as one might think, but the idea of machines for teaching brings up many problems not noticed at first glance. Grading systems would probably have to be greatly revised; the entire concept of education by coercion, motivation, threat and sweat would have to be reexamined; and the application of scientific principles to secondary education would have to be considered. Professor Skinner himself has said: "In the light of our present knowledge a school system must be called a failure if it cannot induce students to learn except by threatening them not to learn...
...Sweat. A chemical textile finish (Cyana) that prevents perspiration odors from contaminating clothing was put on the market by American Cyanamid Co., will appear on Van Heusen's spring-line shirts. Applied to a textile, Cyana causes no change in the fabric's color or feel, remains effective even after 50 washings (unless chlorine bleach is used...
...this furor worried Sheraton Corp. of America, second biggest U.S. hotel chain. It announced that it would offer to its 850,000 cardholders, who got their cards for nothing, a new comprehensive card for $5. Hilton Hotels Corp., biggest U.S. chain, broke into a sweat; fearing the Sheraton competition, Hilton announced that it would expand the Hilton card, which is used in its 33 hotels in the U.S. and abroad, to cover outside restaurants and shops...