Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slot-car racing seems to have been invented in England, but it might have been made to order for the U.S. market. Model builders and tinkerers have almost unlimited scope for fiddling the hours away with a tool kit; automobile buffs can at last possess that low-slung Ferrari or that hot-rod Model A (or both); will-to-winners can frazzle their adrenals with high-test competition, and Walter Mittys can pocketa-pocketa to a screaming finish in the Grand Prix without risk of fracturing their spectacles...
...dispute with his directors, Sir John resigned in 1871, later died in poverty. The company grew on through wars and depression, hardly paused in the late 1940s, when the Labor government nationalized its coal and steel subsidiaries. It Used a $15 million compensation to modernize plants and acquire machine-tool companies. When the Tories offered back the denationalized mills in 1953, John Brown was doing so well that it turned them down...
While the filibuster has been regarded as a tool to assist Southern attempts to block civil rights , Cooper testified "tomorrow be the liberals who want to it. The consequences of changing majority cloture are not at all clear." rules, requiring two-thirds of voting to shut off debate, have action. Cooper insisted. But he that cloture by three-fifths of those and voting, as urged in S. Res. 6 Senators Clinton P. Anderson (D-N. and Thruston B. Morton (R-Ky.), be preferable to cloture by a of "all Senators duly chosen and ," as Senator Paul H. Douglas...
...Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed, which predate the Protestant Reformation and are accepted by most Christians. The Westminster Confession will thus be de-emphasized and set in its historical place as the expression of 17th century Presbyterianism. "A confession is not a monument, but the tool for the present mission of the church. It is not good Calvinism to let one document stand for three centuries," says Church Historian Dowey...
...capital nor continent, neither jungle nor village, and no quadrant of the sky is beyond the range of its missiles or its reconnaissance planes. And yet in a nuclear age, the weapons are there mostly in order not to be used, except in crucial self-defense. The most immediate tool of U.S. policy around the world remains money-money springing from apparently bottomless prosperity, money which, in its ultimate use, the U.S. cannot really control...