Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jimenez' fictional pet. The poorer folk use them to haul firewood from the forests or farm produce to market. The children ride them to school...
...often concerned with the political effect of their words as with any goods they may want to buy." Added a Ruhr industrialist: "The demand for Russian caviar is not unlimited in Germany, and it is not always easy to obtain other goods for which we might have better use...
...George Dufek last week urged Washington to send atomic-powered heat and light. If that seemed pretty cushy for explorers, it made practical scientific sense. The polar fuel bill is huge, and along the Arctic's 3,000-mile DEW line as well, U.S. radar stations could well use small reactors instead of flying...
...None of its components is bigger than 20 ft. by 9 ft. by 7 ft., and none weighs more than ten tons, so it can be flown anywhere with ease and assembled on the spot. Its enriched uranium fuel supply lasts three years. Once produced in quantity for military use, it may become the long-overdue prototype of a portable U.S. reactor for underdeveloped countries...
...students use no Soviet sources when studying the Russian Revolution. Said one delegate: "In the City College of New York all we could find on the Soviet Union were two books-one by an American and one by a German. You can imagine the interpretation they gave." ¶ "Our Ph.D.s are better trained and have more knowledge." ¶ "We repeatedly asked to meet young workers, but nothing happened." ¶ Ninety-five percent of what Americans read about the Soviet Union is "distorted," although U.S. residents are clever enough to "read between the lines...