Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spend billions of dollars fighting Khrushchev & Co. when the nation will soon be taken over by Hoffa & Co.? I don't know which of the two is worse. They both use the same methods...
...regrouping the world's dead (according to Witnesses, more than 250 billion), Pastor Russell has at last found a practical use for Texas...
...contacts, instantly plotted with diamond-shaped metal markers. This wall-sized chart is televised daily to Atlantic Fleet Commander Jerauld Wright, Admiral U.S.N.; top-secret reports on sightings are typed on red paper, circulated among the proper officials of the Pentagon-and the typewriter ribbons are locked up after use to prevent unauthorized people from examining the ribbon imprints. This is only one phase of ASW (Antisubmarine Warfare). The task of detecting, hunting-and wartime, killing-of enemy submarines is a newly emphasized science, bursting with urgency. The top U.S. antisubmariner is an admiral who has proved his versatility...
Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus, just nominated (and thus elected) for his third term, had no such qualms. "Compliance," sneered Faubus, "cannot be obtained by invoking the sacred name of the Constitution, or by the use of the once-magic name of Eisenhower." At week's end he called a special session of the Arkansas legislature, asked it to pass a new set of anti-integration laws-in Southern anticipation of a final Supreme Court order to reintegrate Central High...
Rosy has been photographing ships since he was a twelve-year-old on Manhattan's Lower East Side. With five other boys, he raised $1.25 to buy a Premo 4-by-5 camera from a pawnshop. When it came his turn to use it, he took a picture of a square-rigger moored off Manhattan's South Street. The shot won $5 in a photo contest, and when Rosy quit day school a year later to help support his family, he turned naturally to photography. He became a hustling freelancer who got a beat on the Baltimore fire...