Word: tools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then as chairman of the new department of sociology. But gradually he began applying his trade in the politics of the Nationalist Party. In 1933, when Nationalist Prime Minister Barry Hertzog made a pact with the South African Party's pliable Jan Christian Smuts-whom Verwoerd considered a tool of the British-he was so disgusted that he joined Afrikanerdom's ultranationalist secret society, the Broederbond (brotherhood). With a young Transvaal lawyer named Johannes Strijdom, he founded Die Transvaler, an Afrikaans-language newspaper, to put across their message. Verwoerd resigned from Stellenbosch to become the editor...
...Afrikaans word meaning separation. It is a political dogma based on the fear-not entirely unjustified-that South Africa's 12 million blacks will overwhelm its 3.4 million whites, and it is enforced only through massive and brutal police powers. But to Verwoerd, it is not simply a tool to keep the black man in his place. He sees it as a creative policy intended to allow the Bantu to develop as a true African instead of becoming an imitation white man. "Separation does not envision oppression," he proclaims...
After a month in Kharkov, the U.S. exhibit, which is being transported in a special train provided by the Kremlin, will pack up its tool sets and head to the Lower Don city of Rostov and thence to Erevan, capital of Soviet Armenia. Inaugurating the display in Kharkov, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Foy D. Kohler noted that "at a time when political relations between our governments are not as good as they might be," such exhibits "help create a climate of understanding and good will between our two peoples" that "cannot but facilitate the search for solutions to political problems...
...newly planted oak and eucalyptus trees, the low, two-mile-long structure could easily be mistaken for a new link in California's growing network of freeways. Instead of automobiles, however, it will handle streams of speeding electrons. It is Stanford University's linear accelerator, the newest tool in one of the newest and fastest-growing disciplines of science, high-energy physics. When it achieves full power and goes into operation this fall, the largest atom smasher in the world will give man a closer look at the mysterious subatomic world and its host of newly discovered particles...
Because of Hughes's habits, TWA was late ordering-and obtaining-jets, a lapse which let Pan American run away with the lucrative transatlantic trade for several years. Then, characteristically, Hughes ordered so many jets that even his fabulously profitable Hughes Tool Co. could not meet the bill. While he still could have done so, Hughes brushed off proposals that he give up a small part of his 78% ownership of TWA to raise money. In the end, forced to borrow $165 million or face receivership, he had to surrender operating control of TWA to the Metropolitan and Equitable...