Word: use
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...countries, cameramen clicked away at the glistening TU-IO4A (a 70-seat civilian modification of the Badger medium bomber), which makes daily passenger runs between Moscow and Prague. Later newsmen and aviation experts clambered aboard for a firsthand look at the only type of jetliner in passenger use since the decommissioning of Britain's flawed Comets in 1954. Their assessment: good, but in some ways surprisingly crude...
...plane had landed at McGuire because the Port of New York Authority has banned all jets except the comparatively quiet French Caravelle (not yet in regular use, but cleared for Idlewild) from New York-area airports. The Authority refused to make an exception unless the plane passed a sound test, which the Russians refused to permit...
...Flag. At the moment, Russia's happiest hunting ground was the Middle East. Last week Moscow got off diplomatic notes about the situation there to the U.S., Britain and France. Ostensibly just a renewal of last April's bland proposals that the Big Four forswear the use of force in the Mideast, the notes actually added up to a device to win an Arab audience for the charges that France was planning "a military alliance with Israel," that Britain had committed aggression in Oman and Yemen, that the U.S. was plotting against the Egyptian and Syrian governments. Like...
...possible avenue of approach for Krishnamachari would be .a request that the U.S. create a "standby fund" of from $600 million to $800 million, which India would use as its currency backing while drawing on sterling reserves in London for ready cash...
...Says So? Although both brother and sister declare that no one use of language is "correct," their book is built around what they call "respectable English," that is, "English used by educated people when they are speaking in public or writing to strangers." The Evanses hastily point out that this "respectable" English has no more inherent merit than any other, and that it is constantly changing. But they still use the concept as a standard. Much of the debate about the Evanses' book will swirl around the two obvious questions raised by their definition of respectable English...