Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spain "worse than I had imagined . . . The peace that prevailed was the peace of the sepulchre." More than at any time since the 16th Century, there is "that terrible concept of Spanish unity . . . which equates Spanish nationality with adhesion to the Roman Catholic Church and makes the state the tool of the church's will." Spain's 20,000 Protestants are virtually isolated from normal life: according to Mackay, they may not mark their churches, publish church literature, hold services in private homes, conduct recreational clubs or parochial schools, or become army officers, teachers or lawyers, and they...
...Player-Tool. A robot machine-tool operator that works on a principle similar to a player piano has been developed by Brooklyn's Daco Machine and Tool Co. A perforated tape hooked up on a closed electrical circuit, it can start, stop & otherwise operate a machine from any distance...
Pumps & Gremlins. Other delaying factors include a machine-tool shortage and strikes. Since Korea, the workers in 21 major defense plants have walked off the job. At the Colorado Springs Commanders' Conference, Air Force Chief Hoyt Vandenberg said the strikes have set the long-range program back a full year...
...Tool Collector...
Godolphin has in his office, (besides a collection of rare knives and swords, which he denies using on the culprits) a wastebasket full of captured tools. This collection of implements taken by cops and proctors from unsuccessful freshman thieves includes one poker, two rusty hollow iron pipes, one hammer, one screwdriver, pliers, one stillson wrench, one car tire wrench, and one unidentifiable tool. He says that this basketful is only part of his original set of tools, many of which have been picked up later by their owners...