Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loping camel's gait, he drops his rifle in formation, he innocently lets a knavish buddy borrow and sell his equipment. Trained to become a truck driver, he smashes up a couple of vehicles, runs another over a cliff. Primitive that he is, he fervently worships his tire pressure gauge as a handy, portable...
...Paddy upset the dope. Though he could hardly fight like Joe Louis, he seemed determined not to fight like DeMarco. Bouncing all over the ring, he threw sharp jabs and long, looping rights. Flat-footed and casual. Jimmy Carter protected himself, boxed back occasionally and waited for Paddy to tire...
...second and third games and the early part of the fourth, Brownell drove. Campbell from wall to wall with his accurate low shots, mixed with occasional, drop and corner shots. Campbell was regularly hitting the tin. But when Brownell seemed to tire slightly Campbell began to confidently pick his shots out of the air before the bounce and to beat Brownell at his own back court game. The game scores were...
Instead of the old piecework system, Olivetti has introduced a faster, less tire some production-line process. His workers have a time-incentive program which boosted production 62%, wages 30% dur ing the first year of operation. Further more, when Olivetti decided to build a new plant in 1950, he built it in Pozzuoli near Naples because he felt that the creation of jobs in the depressed south was more important than the economic ad vantage of locating it near his main plant...
TIREMAKERS expect 1954's production to equal or exceed last year's 100,500,000 units. A drop in auto output would hurt some companies which do a large original-equipment business, but not affect others (e.g., General Tire, Armstrong Rubber, Seiberling) which supply the growing replacement market. Prices will be about the same...