Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signs of becoming more reasonable in their attitude, greater freedom and a fuller life might be provided." Another paper dealing with the postwar reduction of Germany is a memorandum written by the late fellow traveler Harry Dexter White, then Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and later exposed as a tool of the Communists. It told how Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. came back to Washington in the late summer of 1944, after the second Quebec Conference. At Quebec, Morgenthau and White had got the initials of Roosevelt and Churchill on the Morgenthau plan, designed to reduce Germany to a "pastoral...
...Lincoln Continental Mark IIs (there is a waiting list in Houston, where the delivered price is $10,700). There are shortages of scrap metal, aluminum, copper, newsprint, canned salmon, seats on airlines from Manhattan to Miami, and selenium.* There are too few salesmen, secretaries, schoolteachers, diemakers, loom fixers, machine-tool operators, mechanics, household servants...
While there are still executives who yearn for the old days, when the boss gave orders and everyone else carried them out, there is no doubt that conferences are likely to become even more solidly established as a handy management tool-if wisely used...
Thus, Cincinnati's Dr. Howard Fabing told a Manhattan meeting of drugmakers this week, was born a favorite tool of psychiatric research. Psychiatrists may still puzzle over the nature and cause of schizophrenia, but at last they can turn on and off, at will, psychotic episodes which have most of the earmarks of natural mental illness. (For the turning off, psychiatrists use peace-of-mind drugs, e.g., chlorpromazine and Frenquel, and can snap a patient out of an artificial psychosis within minutes.) On a Revolving Cloud. Among a dozen U.S. medical teams researching LSD, one is headed...
...solve all human problems. Science, he pointed out, cannot explain the reason for man's existence, and hence people turn to religion as a replacement for scientific knowledge. Tillich criticized ways employed by some religionists to expedite this revival, maintaining that evangelists--"now conformists"--have used religion as a tool rather than an end in itself. In conclusion, Professor Tillich noted the present lamentable state of individualism. "The nonconformist," he said, "will have to go underground...