Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carry the logic into public life and politics. He has tried to practice such uncomfortable texts as "Thou shalt love thy neighbor." In doing so he has found himself in a position where many sincere men regard him as a mischievous crank, a self-advertising fanatic and an easy tool for Communists. Many other men regard him as their only effective friend in politics, as a man who intends to do good as well as be good. With David Livingstone and Albert Schweitzer, he is one of the few who have penetrated the barrier of suspicion that exists between...
...Capture. The posse settled down warily to wait for the law. But Ellis set the barn on fire. It burned to smoldering ruins. When the ranchers discovered that Ellis had taken refuge in a tool shed behind it, they opened up with volleys from deer rifles, pistols, shotguns and .225. Six hundred rounds were fired. "Come out!" a rancher yelled. There was no answer. Several hundred more rounds cracked into the shack. Then Ellis, hit by six bullets, and dying, called "I'm through. Come...
Atoms for Diagnosis. In the long run, atomic medicine may prove to be more important as a tool kit to help doctors in diagnosis than as a shelf of cures. Already, radio-sodium is extremely valuable as a treatment gauge in certain types of kidney disease of which children are most often the victims. It is all very well to keep these little patients, with their puffy eyes, on a diet from which salt is rigorously excluded. But doctors need to be sure that they are not going too far: if the system is really salt-starved (and hence, sodium...
Throughout the U.S. (as in Canada and Britain and Western Europe), eager researchers are grasping for every usable tool they can find in the atomic kit. So far, of over a thousand known isotopes (many of them stable) of 98 elements, at least 60 radioactive forms have been tried in medicine and research. In the U.S., the Atomic Energy Commission is backing more than 300 research projects by private institutions in medicine and biochemistry, and there are many more, under security wraps, in AEC's own labs. And the nation's hospitals and universities themselves are sponsoring hundreds...
...Korean truce negotiations would be Stalin's most convenient tool in the coming election. His agent Malik first suggested them--over a year ago. If a quick truce had been arranged, Truman's foreign policy would have scored a tremendous victory. Campaigning on a Peace and Prosperity platform, Truman could be very hard to beat. But Harry Truman, for all his vices, is not Stalin's kind of President. So Stalin has let the truce talks bog down. The Korean casualties continue to trickle in, causing increasing impatience with Truman's foreign policy--impatience mixed with disillusionment, since what seemed...