Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press conference two weeks ago, the President said he did not want his office used as a tool in political struggles in any state or district. The Presidency, he said, should be above partisan conflict. Last Wednesday, he back-peddled considerably, stressing his great desire for continued Republican control of both House and Senate and admitting hie would do some campaigning toward this goal. On Thursday, he completed the switch, declaring through his press secretary that he favored election of any Republican, at any time, any place. Remove the party labels, and this last idea smacks of former President Truman...
Bishop Rafael Alvarez Lara agreed to give the idea a trial in his See of Guadix, and Brothers Hilarion and Bernardo went to work. In the cemetery's dilapidated tool shed, they arranged two small cells and a tiny kitchen. All day long, they labor in the graveyard, clearing paths, repairing crumbling headstones, replacing rusty iron crosses and digging graves, an average of one a day. Each day they rise at 2 a.m. to walk in meditation through the cemetery to the tiny chapel, where they pray until...
...After a generation of waiting, the U.S. Public Health Service finally got the $64 million research tool it wanted...
...wrong because no two men age alike. Some men are young in spirit at 65 and well able to continue working; other men are old at 50. Actually, younger men are better only in physically exhausting jobs that require great muscular exertion. In more highly skilled jobs, such as tool & diemaking, skill increases with experience. Though older men lose some of their zip, they make up for it with their know-how, less waste, and greater dependability...
...Force will spend $250 million to increase production of B-52 bombers and tool up Boeing's Wichita, Kans. plant as a second source of supply for the bombers, now being made only in Seattle. Production of North American's supersonic fighter, the F-100, will also be stepped up, even though testing has not been completed, because the plane performed so well in its first flights...