Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week politicians of the Republican People's Party, which opposes Bayar's Democratic Party, denounced Lawyer Ball as "a tool of the oil interests," and criticized his draft as too freehanded with Turkey's oil. The investment law has also been a target for such political potshots as: "Why don't the Democrats introduce those two laws in the original English? It would save translation costs...
...freeze of basic wage increases at ten percent, to stop the Korean inflation. When the motion passed, one of the labor members was so angry he stuck his fist through a plate glass window. Labor walked out on the board, Dunlop recalls, and its press denounced him as a tool of management. A year later, during the crippling steel strike, he voted to grant a union shop to the Basic Steel industry. For this he was blasted on the floor of Congress for being in the pay of the unions. Dunlop has a hard time explaining what it's like...
...sufficiently high technical nature to warm the heart of the most demanding practicing anthropologist. One of the Museum's prize displays, for instance, is its room devoted entirely ot sequences of prehistoric artifacts--row on row of stone implements, demonstrating Stone Age man's first feeble attempts at tool-making. In the so-called "bone laboratory," some 15,000 human skeletal remains repose in carefully classified cases for the edification of the Univeristy's physical anthropologists. The physical anthropology section of the Museum has the distinction of possessing the largest collection of chimpanzee skulls on the North American continent--over...
...only they have the book"). One trouble was that many workers did not understand how the plan operated ("It's bad! Like on my job-you can't hardly figure it out"). Father Purcell decided that "the worker does not like to be taken for a machine tool...
...Mulhammer, who thinks he has a male heir, but finds instead that his son has been born of the Virgin Mary, is quite clearly related to the figure of Joseph in the Christ story. There is, once again, the matter of the name. Claude Mulhammer: claw hammer. This basic tool of the carpenter suggests, of course, Joseph's trade, as well as Sir Claude's own dream of the craftsman's life. But Sir Claude is not a craftsman, he is a City financier, a fact which is reflected in the other meaning of claw hammer--a swallowtail dress coat...