Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MACHINE-TOOL business is picking up after a poor year. New orders for September jumped to $53 million, a solid 45% above the low in July...
...when the Arab-Israeli war was coming to a boil, Henderson advocated a U.N. trusteeship for Israel. He was unfairly accused of anti-Semitism (Walter Winchell yowled that he was the tool of the big oil interests because the Arabian American Oil Co. had air-conditioned his apartment). When the U.S. recognized Israel, Henderson once more became an embarrassment and was shipped out as Ambassador to India. He and Pandit Nehru quickly developed a keen mutual dislike for each other...
...indifferently let EDC go to its death, and who did not hesitate to threaten the whole painfully contrived structure with last-minute disaster. Others had talked of "glorious visions" and wailed over the intransigence of the French Assembly. Pierre Mendès-France used that intransigence as a tool, and talked not of sentiments but of realities...
...Failure of a metal after repeated straining. Small cracks, which sometimes start at tool marks, sharp indentations or other "stress raisers," spread through metal until it breaks. Sufficient strength, correct design and careful fabrication can prevent such failures...
...worried scientists, the Christian Century offered its sympathy. "The unhappiness of our American scientists is increasing as they perceive how exposed is the position of one who is, in the last analysis, a tool of the Government. It may be necessary for scientists ... to live under the eye of the FBI, but it is not pleasant...