Word: toole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Winter believes that psychiatrists should do what he is now doing in his Manhattan practice: use the auditing technique of dianetics as one more tool in their kits, along with parts of psychoanalysis and general semantics. In any case, Winter is convinced that it is dangerous for laymen to try to audit each other (he cites patients at Hubbard's foundation who went insane); treatment should be by experts only...
Scarcely three months ago, the worst bottleneck in the defense production program was machine tools. But by last week, machine-tool makers had gotten, in rapid succession, super-priorities on metals and tools, the authority to reach far & wide for labor, and a 12% price boost. As a result, they were well launched on a 400% production expansion...
...characters, The Limit has a wholly unprofessional air. Chapters are skittishly allotted first to one set of people, then to another. The stern "line" and "unity" of a Flaubert (or of a professional instructor in how-to-write-a-novel) is replaced by the skilled amateur's best tool-a skewer of personal touch and bias that holds all the pieces together. To post-Edwardian writers, obsessed by character analysis and an urge to get to the bottom of everything, The Limit should bring two salutary reminders: 1) actions speak louder than words; 2) the agony of creation belongs...
...Although output has doubled since the Korean war began, machine tools are in such short supply that the industry will have to use up much of its own output to set new machine-tool producers up in business. Meanwhile, it hacks away at a $1 billion backlog of urgent orders...
...nervously when he caught sight of 66-year-old Steven Hardie, the hard-boiled Socialist millionaire who took over as chairman of the government-owned Iron and Steel Corp., custodian for 217 nationalized steel companies. Growled Churchill to the House of Commons: "His arrogant behavior as a servant and tool of the government will certainly be the subject of continuous attention...