Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mind through shock therapy and deep sleep. Unlike brainwashing, Psychiatrist Cameron's method does not seek to implant alien ideas in the mind, but rather to break the chain of schizophrenic reactions and leave the mind free to reorganize itself. Granting that the method is "a sharp tool," Cameron considers it justified for the most stubborn cases, declares this controversial technique has proved "more successful than any previously reported...
...literature, ideology -and Georgy Malenkov. Khrushchev charged that the man he ordered off to central Asian exile last July had "fallen under the complete influence of the sworn enemy of the people and the party, the provocateur Beria," and become the late secret-police boss's "shadow and tool." Said Khrushchev: "Holding a high position in the party and state, Comrade Malenkov not only did not hold Stalin back, but with great skill made use of the weaknesses and habits of Stalin during the last years of his life. On many occasions, he prompted him to actions which deserve...
...Tools. As the group headed off from Moscow's Yaroslavsky Station amid a blare of brass bands, the Rev. Mr. McKenna read a statement signed by 32 members of the group. "We believe in the right of citizens to travel." he said. "We reject the notion that we are a tool of Communist propaganda." Not 24 hours later one of the group, Brooklyn's Larry Moyer, was pumping out glowing dispatches for the United Press about Communism's "oceans of golden wheat . . . big factories and golden domes of Byzantine churches . . . new industrial giants seldom visited by foreigners...
...politics, government and the boudoir antics of showfolk. "Business too often takes the attitude that the press must cooperate or be guilty of an antibusiness attitude," says the Chicago Sun-Times's deep-digging Financial Editor Austin Wehrwein, who frequently writes columns on the mythical Pfutzer Foundry & Finished Tool Co. (cable address: PFFT) that not only spoof business shenanigans and shibboleths, but satirize the brand of handout punditry that characterizes most business-page stories...
HOWARD HUGHES is also target of trustbusters. Justice Department charged that his Hughes Tool Co. divided world markets to prevent import into U.S. of German-made oil and gas well-drilling equipment that would compete with him. Suit says that since 1950 Hughes has illegally pooled patents and consulted on prices with West Germany's Alfred Wirth...