Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would keep him from being as "active" as Dulles was. "I don't think necessarily," said Herter softly. "I can get around perfectly well. The only trouble that I have at all is standing for a long time or walking considerable distances. But with these sticks that I use"-he glanced at his aluminum arm crutches-"I can move along very comfortably." Reporters recalled how, as Under Secretary of State, Herter often had unflinchingly stood at attention at lengthy airport ceremonies for foreign dignitaries while the knuckles of his hands turned white from the strain of gripping his crutches...
Signaling U.S. officials in Oslo, local miners quickly began work on extending a small glacier airstrip for the use of U.S. planes. Then the U.S. Air Force got permission from the Norwegian government to send out search planes from its base near Reykjavic, Iceland and from U.S. bases in Germany. Later, two U.S. C-130 cargo planes touched down at the makeshift runway at Longyearbyen, unloaded two helicopters that the U.S. hurriedly leased from the Norwegian government...
...harder farther south. In Nyasaland almost no economic restrictions are placed upon the Asians, but in Southern Rhodesia a Hindu may not buy liquor without a special permit. A Moslem attorney from Nyasaland, working on a case in the capital of Southern Rhodesia, suddenly found that he could not use the washroom or take the elevator. In Dar es Salaam an Asian may play cricket with Europeans, but he will not then be able to join them for a drink at the Gumkhana Club. In the Union of South Africa, Asians have long since been virtually eliminated from voting rolls...
...smoker himself, Dr. Wynder despairs of persuading 55 million Americans to quit the habit. But to make it safer, he urges manufacturers to use low-tar tobaccos and the most potent filters they can find. For smokers themselves he recommends: try to cut down, inhale less, never smoke down to the butt-not more than half of a king-size cigarette-because 60% of the tar is in the last half...
...time the 'Punies were disengaged, the CRIMSON shell, dodging between the obstructive wherries which 'Poon editors rowed in its path, shot under the Weeks Memorial footbridge. In a final, desperate attempt more 'Punie hopefuls hurled sacks of flour and a rubber dinghy after it. But it was no use, for upping the stroke to a climatic 48, the Crimeds stretched to a racing finish and crossed the line as cheers echoed across the river