Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legs, for example, of that chair-how miraculous their tubularity ... I spent several minutes-or was it several centuries?-not merely gazing at those bamboo legs but actually being them . . ." Amateur Mystic Huxley was experimenting with mescaline, a drug which some have thought might become a psychiatrist's tool, like pentothal and Amytal. The purpose of these drugs is to banish a patient's inhibitions and "bring him out of himself." One of the most effective of these drugs-and most bizarre in its brain-stabbing effects-is lysergic acid diethylamide, better known to the trade...
...blew a gasket. In Detroit new models are always a closely guarded secret, revealed to newsmen only on an off-the-record basis until the companies are ready to put them on sale. But the Journal refused to hear "off-the-record" information. It got its story from the tool-and-die shops of Detroit and from competing auto companies, pieced together a rough-and not always accurate-picture of what the new cars will be like...
...literally addresses the ball. "Come on, little ball," he will mutter. "Now git up there on the green like ah say." Snead lacks Hogan's machine-tool precision, but he is as durable as Sarazen, as handy with the irons as Byron Nelson, and he outdrives Bobby Jones in his prime by a full 20 yards. Like Babe Ruth (to whom his fans often compare him) and the little girl with the curl, Snead is sensationally good when he is good-and when he is bad he is horrid. He is never dull. He plays a gamboling, gambling game...
...Harding look, was not on speaking terms with his principal opponent, Herbert ("Doc") Evatt, the stocky, ambitious leader of Australian Labor. Both are from New South Wales, the sons of country shopkeepers, born in the same year (1894) and both able lawyers. But Evatt accused Menzies of being the tool of "trusts and combines," and Menzies fought back with charges of "disgraceful, shameful, mercenary bidding for votes...
...name ones friends might "explain" a claim of the privilege. It states (p. 600) that "Every good citizen is bound to aid in the enforcement of the law, and has no right to permit himself, under the pretext of sheltering his own good name to be the tool of others, who are desirous of seeking shelter behind his privilege...