Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoosier would deny that shortly after Governor Craig "burst" into office, the air was hot and heavy with toll-road plans; and certainly no Hoosier could deny that, as a political tool for graft-minded politicians, the toll-road project is a tremendous achievement. What you didn't mention is that the remainder of our highways have acquired the not so complimentary name of "Craig's corduroy road system...
Trouble on a Limb. Ambiguity is an ancient and necessary tool of diplomacy. In the case of Quemoy and Matsu, which are closer to the China mainland than to Formosa, it provides the U.S. with a flexibility and freedom of action, i.e., the President allows himself the chance to assess the circumstances of attack before opening fire on Communist China. Dulles has a second reason for ambiguity: in Britain, where the defense of Quemoy and Matsu is unpopular, the Churchill government has gone a long way to endorse the U.S. stand on defending Formosa, runs the risk of weakening even...
...there are others who would have the Soviet Union and its power serve primarily as a tool of international Communism and as a means for achieving its worldwide ambitions. These two ends, one symbolized by the state and the other by the party, do not always coincide...
...machine-tool industry was criticized for using obsolete methods and being behind production in electric motors, steam engines, metal-cutting lathes, chemical, textile and rolling mill equipment, and most particularly in freight cars, self-propelled grain combines, tractor cultivators and threshing machines...
...Light. In Denver, after breaking into and ransacking the Colorado Duntile Products Co., breaking locks off tool boxes and the dial off a safe, a burglar finally gave up, penned a thoughtful note: "This night has convinced me that tomorrow I am starting to go straight. Your friend, the burglar...