Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasonably sincere Catholic, I must admit that your Dec. 23 article on holy hucksters certainly hit home. It is an unfortunate fact that the manufacturers and distributors of pseudoreligious trinkets find ready prey among many gullible Catholics. The church is strongly in favor of the use of rosaries, medals, and such aids in the worship of God, but the abuse of this custom, as practiced by these unscrupulous individuals, constitutes a grave offense against everything the church stands...
...Proposed that the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. "should make it the policy of our two governments" not to use the veto in the U.N. Security Council to stave off the peaceful settlement of disputes...
...Army's liquid-fuel 1,500-mile Jupiter, and hopes to deliver a dozen or so Jupiters to NATO late this year. One of Jupiter's several major weaknesses is that fueling and other primping take so long that Jupiter would be of little use as a threat of instant retaliation...
Once Nehru found use for the Lion. Then the Sheik was Nehru's honored comrade in the fight against the British, and the powerful leader who could bind largely Moslem Kashmir to the new Indian nation in 1947. Abdullah became the state of Kashmir's first Premier and symbolized the ability of Moslems and Hindus to believe in one another. But as Jawaharlal Nehru, in his hardening determination to hold strategic Kashmir for India, brushed off even U.N. demands for the Kashmir plebiscite he had promised in 1947, Abdullah began talking of making his state independent...
Every day, chemists synthesize new compounds or find more efficient ways of mass-producing old ones; every week, technologists put a few of them to use in industry or manufacture. A few of them, at least, are carcinogens (i.e., can cause cancer). The result, says Dr. Ivor Cornman in Cancer Research, is that the U.S. is "submerged in carcinogens, few of which we can recognize." Biologist Cornman, of the Hazleton Laboratories in Falls Church, Va., is not exercised about coal-tar derivatives used in dye-making, some oil products, chromate and uranium ore dusts: their hazards are recognized...