Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...topped a field of four other Democrats by a plurality of nearly 90,000, but he also faced a runoff. A night-school lawyer who has never before run for public office, 47-year-old Murray has been a printer, reporter, salesman, cattle dealer, cotton-gin operator, farmer, interpreter, tool dresser, truck dispatcher, oilfield roustabout, and plant manager. His campaign slogan: "Just Plain Folks...
...falls back on traditional art forms, he is simply returning to Picasso's own beginnings. A painter. who easily masters every tool of his trade, is easily bored with everything new he tries, Picasso often seems not just one individual but half a dozen. Since work, for Picasso, means self-expression above all else, his art changes as fast as the artist. And his life, like his art, has always been a ragged succession of brief, blind voyages to unknown ports of call...
...more appreciative of the virtues of Communist-style democracy. Within a few days, Vladimir Houdek, a lumpish, round-shouldered Communist with an acute allergy to hard work, arrived at Lake Success spouting epithets at his predecessor. Papanek, he trumpeted, was a traitor to his country and a tool of the Western warmongers...
Thermometer or Tool? He and Chairman Nourse were constantly at loggerheads. Nourse, onetime vice president of Brookings Institution, who thought of himself as an economist and nothing else, stuck pretty close to economic orthodoxy. Keyserling, an avid Government planner, was further to the left. The council's third member, John D. Clark, skittered around vaguely somewhere in between. The chief difference between Nourse and Keyserling was in their interpretations of CEA's job. Nourse thought it was chiefly to hold a thermometer under the nation's tongue and dispassionately report the results. Keyserling thought...
...planning a book to be titled The Confessions of Two Conscientious Hypocrites. Said he recently: "I don't think anyone can give you a religion ... I think anyone's religion, to be real and workable, has to be self-originating, forever creative. The church is merely a tool to be used-first, to measure our lives against the best we may know, and second, to accomplish with others what we cannot accomplish alone...