Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knew that he would not be comfortable in his old spot tonight and decided to repair to the Crimson rooftop instead. After a few minutes there, Vag knew it was no use. Slowly, he headed back...
...could perhaps ask for a little more articulation and more sparing use of the damper pedal in the Scarlatti, but both sonatas--seldom played items--were performed with grace and elegance, and showed to advantage the many tonal colors at the pianist's disposal...
...Sunday afternoon, the day when TV networks pay commerce's homage to culture, CBS casually dropped a small token into its schedule: a show that offered nothing to the eye but four people talking, nothing to the ear but talk of how to use the English language properly. To the surprise of network skeptics, The Last Word proved the sleeper of 1957, demonstrated that syntax can be made almost as fascinating as sin. Rounding out its sixth month this week, the lively sleeper (now on at 6 p.m., E.D.T.) is still piling up a whopping 1,000 letters...
After production started on the first 71-plane order, G.M.'s suppliers reduced their charges by $1,700,000. Yet, said Powers, at the time of reordering, the company did not tell the Air Force about the saving, instead continued to use old cost estimates for subsequent deliveries. There was also a clerical "error" by G.M. planners, which overestimated the labor on each plane by 1,600 man-hours. Cost of the mistake: another $736,000. Finally, as volume rose, G.M. should have anticipated a reduction of overhead cost of $15,000 per plane, saving the Air Force...
...long-range predictions, Krick insists that daily weather can be foretold as far ahead as several years. His most famous forecast: a magic burst of sunshine for the inaugural committee just as President Eisenhower stepped onto the reviewing stand last January. Krick's system ("Do they think I use tea leaves?") is based on a theory that weather repeats itself in wavelike patterns, plus a newly rented (for $50,000 a year) Remington Rand Univac computer. By feeding vast globs of 60-year-old data into his Univac, Krick accurately forecast the inaugural sunshine 17 days ahead of time...