Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three-car surrey-topped tram, getting near views of miscellaneous Munsters and other TV personalities. Under glass in the office tower they can see the computer which Wasserman uses in order to complete cost control and time factor studies, and run his studio like a good machine tool factory...
...characters slash at it and through it with fast talk, sweet talk, crying talk, any kind of talk. It is a poet's speech-not that O'Neill could ever write a poetic line, but in the sense that a poet regards prose as an inadequate tool to express a man's longings. The poignant intensity of O'Neill is that his spoken lines reach unerringly toward what cannot be spoken. Into Erie's speeches filters not the loneliness of country solitude, but the friendless desolation of big-city anonymity. The rattle of a policeman...
Britain's industry, while boasting some of the world's most efficient companies (such as those in electrical equipment and chemicals) is generally antiquated; three out of every five of its machine-tool population of 1,484,496 are more than ten years old and more than one in five is over 20 years old. While Britain had 75 computers installed in 1957 v. 55 for the entire Common Market, six years later it had only 550 against the Market's 1,500. U.S. Management Consultant William W. Allen has pointed out that it takes three Britons...
...interest of both scientists and pseudo scientists in LSD (and, to a lesser extent, in the other hallucinogens) is in its effects on the mind. And these are so fantastic that most experimenters insist words are not the right medium for describing them, but they have devised no better tool for communication...
...disease, disaster and death . . . also at tempts to find an answer to the question of how one human should relate to an other, and how man should understand his own impermanence. [It] ranges from a hedonistic sensuality to a search for the highest philosophic abstractions, from a tool for deriving scientific data to a sacrament taken to achieve loss of self and union with...