Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Women. The most damaging blows against the bill were delivered by the women M.P.s. Mrs. Lena Jeger, who sits for vice-ridden Holborn and St. Pancras South, objected to the use of the word "loitering" in the bill, and stirred giggles by stating that she liked "loitering" in disreputable streets, because they were interesting ones. Slight, blue-haired Joan Vickers said coolly: "I rather wonder whether, if the House of Commons consisted of 602 women and 28 men, this bill would have come before us today...
...Most Talented. Since India produces only 1,800,000 tons of ingot steel a year, the government must use up huge chunks of its foreign reserves to import the steel the country needs. Hoping to quadruple production by 1961, India has brought in the services of four different nations to do it. At Durgapur in West Bengal, 400 British experts are supervising 29,000 Indians in building a mill that will begin operation next fall. Also in West Bengal, in Jamshedpur, the Pittsburgh of India, U.S. engineers of the Kaiser Engineers Division are just about finished with...
...began taking Murata's advice by exercising their navels twice a day. The master himself, who looks 15 years younger than he is, climbed down into coal mines to spread the word. He spoke over the radio, taught the maids in the hotels he stayed at how to use their navels while cleaning and scrubbing.*His crusade got results. Executives found themselves less tense, employees more eager, and the phrase "Your navel isn't in it" is now a part of the Japanese language. Today 160 firms and organizations are members of the Navel Heaven movement...
Newest notion is to use magnet coils cooled by liquid hydrogen to 10° or 20° above absolute zero ( - 459.6° F.). At this temperature the conductivity of metals is enormously increased. Supercold coils carrying monstrous currents might produce magnetic fields strong enough...
...work. Lieut. Commander Cushing was left with a partial paralysis of the left side of his face that still pulls down the corner of his mouth, gives him a quizzical look. He was philosophical ("There was not a damn thing I could do about it. so what was the use of worrying?"). At war's end he went back to the law (in Wall Street), stuck it out for two years, quit in boredom ("The war taught me life could be exciting...