Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began on the beaches and the golf courses, with multicolored blazers, vari-patterned shirts, brick-red slacks, Bermuda shorts, and hats and caps that looked as if they had been dug out of the tool chest of an old Stutz Bearcat. It was furthered by increased weekend living, during which men assumed a dressed-up casualness. Last week Manhattan's Brooks Brothers advertised "casual clothes for evening," an ensemble consisting of a shawl-collared jacket in red, green, yellow or black, with "trousers in black with green-black Tartan stripes, narrow alternating stripes and attractive checks" down the sides...
...heal the breach of peace, the O.A.S. used energy, speed and a historic new tool: armed observation planes supplied by the U.S. Navy from the Canal Zone. Sent on the sole authority of the U.S., such police planes would have been unthinkable Yankee intervention, but the O.A.S. as an international body was able with heightened prestige to accept the offer of Assistant Secretary of State Henry Holland, U.S. Latin American affairs chief. Flying over rebel territory, the investigation commission learned enough to dispose firmly of Somoza's claim that his country had nothing to do with the invasion. They...
Rhinclander feels that tool expansion is impossible, and as for a more selective admissions policy within the present size college, he says, "I'd be worried if Harvard came to the point where it attracted no students other than proto-Ph.Ds... to the exclusion of the practical men of affairs. We need more, not less, contact with the public...
...History gives us ample warning. The new Germany seems determined to make the army the servants of a democratic state not the tool of a reckless dictation," Conant said in a speech before the General Assembly of the States, a meeting of state governors...
...Detroit tool and die maker, and as such have built dies and fixtures for various new military developments. No one asked me to pass moral judgment on these projects. They handed me the blueprints, they ordered the steel, and told me to make a delivery date . . . Now I'll grant that building an atomic bomb requires a higher order of intelligence than die making, but . . . the atomic scientists and Detroit's die makers are links in the same chain. The atomic scientist, for all his education (and probably finer moral development), is no more entitled to obstructionist tactics...