Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statewide network of radio and television stations last week, Hodges expressed his personal feelings: "I think the U.S. Supreme Court made a tragic mistake." But, he said, "we are forced to recognize that that court has the final word. [We] do not like lawlessness." Luther Hodges meant to use the power of the state to uphold, not upset, the law of the land...
...courts . . . The governor of a state in this respect is in no different position from that of any other state officials . . . If it be assumed that the governor was entitled to declare a state of insurrection and to bring military force to the aid of civil authority, the proper use of that power in this instance was to maintain the federal court in the exercise of its jurisdiction and not to attempt to override...
...Syria. Loy Henderson's specific point was that the Russians are so persistently brandishing the threat of force before impressionable Arabs that the U.S. has to convince the Arabs that the U.S. also packs atomic hardware, and if it should come to it, the U.S. also means to use...
...benefits took firm hold: an employee restaurant, a clinic, a library, a clubhouse, a credit union. Profit-sharing, retirement benefits, summer Saturday closings, systematic job evaluations, even sending executives to the Harvard Business School-all were pioneered by the Filenes. Said Lincoln: "Every release of the worker to more use of his mind, every addition to his skill, means steadily better wages. Society can well afford to pay a steadily rising wage bill so long as it is steadily enriched by new intelligence...
...ready to lie, cheat or step over corpses to make their fancies come true. Angel dreams of being beautiful, clever, successful, beloved, and of owning Paradise House, the stately manor where her aunt is a lady's maid. While the Walter Mittys of this world use such dreams only as cushions, Angel uses hers as deadly weapons. With demoniac energy she pours her imaginings into a series of extremely bad, extremely popular novels...