Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bluntly, "Chris never did have that indefinable something that makes children and dogs follow him down the street." But in his campaign, Herter combined polite persuasion (best effort: small pizza parties arranged by friends) with a slam-bang attack on Dever's record ("Dever . . . has become the tool of the contractors who are doing the same jobs over and over again at your expense"). Herter won by a hairline 14,440 votes. In his short six months as governor, he has managed to impress something of his character on Massachusetts and to give the Commonwealth government a refreshing sample...
...Republican Arthur Watkins, who was managing the Administration bill to admit refugees from NATO and Iron Curtain countries outside the rigid quotas of the 1952 McCarran Act.* The President, the State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Psychological Strategy Board had advocated the measure as an effective tool of U.S. foreign policy. McCarran, backed by several Southern Democrats and Midwestern Republicans, had fought the bill hard. Giving ground slowly, he had offered to compromise at 120,000 refugees, then 124,000, then 185,000, then 194,000. Turned down each time, he was ready, he told Hennings, to make...
Since they ousted ex-Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison from the Party Executive last year, the Bevanites have influenced policy out of all proportion to their real power. Last month the party's "Challenge to Britain" platform called for partial nationalization of the complex aircraft, machine-tool and chemical industries. But last week the Trades Union Congress (183 unions, 8,000,000 members) staged a counterattack. Keynoted Chairman Tom O'Brien: "The British trades union movement created the Labor Party, and if the child thinks it is going to devour the father, it must be told there is nothing...
...recondite to accomplished Scrabblers. Gnus are African antelopes, nix is accepted dictionary slang for "nothing" or "I don't allow," a zax is a sharp-pointed tool used in roofing, tut is a mild chiding exclamation...
AJTOMAKERS' 1954 models may be postponed if the month-old Tool & Die Craftsmen's strike is not ended soon. Chrysler and Packard have already postponed their fall announcement dates, and failure to get dies from strike-bound plants has got G.M. worried...