Word: toole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Recalling his experience at the Seventh World Youth Festival in Vienna in 1959, Sigmund said that anti-Communist Americans should expect an "intensely hostile" atmosphere. Propaganda against the United States will probably be very prominent, and "if you criticize Soviet policies, you will be labelled a Fascist, a NATO tool, or an FBI spy," he continued...
...digging--a chore which falls on trained college and graduate students--proceeds horizontally from one trench to the other, one thin layer at a time. The digger usually pokes his way along with a large screw driver bent into a right angle. Occasionally he uses a spatula-like tool to skim off the dirt. As the work proceeds boards are placed down to prevent damage to the underlying stratum...
...area of ignorance and broadens his area of decision-making influence, leaves less room for seat-of-the-pants hunches and costly fumbles. Says Chairman Thomas J. Watson of IBM. the world's biggest and most profitable manufacturer of computers: "Business is becoming a much more precision-tool operation than it used...
...Leanness. The new, precision-tool sharpness of U.S. business shaped 1961's recession and recovery. Here the computer played two key roles: 1) it made possible more accurate and rapid forecasting of the economy's swings, and 2) it permitted businessmen to adjust their inventories more closely to those swings. Because any change in final demand is now quickly translated by computers into a rise or fall in production, businessmen can operate with leaner stocks, cut down the high costs of accumulating and warehousing inventory. And by spotting economic danger symptoms early, the computers enable business and Government...
...house of representatives last year "if one candidate hadn't shot himself up in a hunting accident and if [Rocky Ford Candidate] Anne Thompson hadn't withdrawn at the last minute when she found she was to become a mother," go-getting State Republican Chairman Jean K. Tool, 41, proclaimed his intention to extract from all future candidates a pledge "to give up hunting during the campaign and to refrain from activities that might lead to pregnancy...