Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outgoing national chairman, Rhode Island's easygoing J. Howard McGrath, had never wanted to be beastly to the Dixiecrats. He thought that judicious use of patronage and cajolery would corral some Dixiecrat votes in Congress for Harry Truman's Fair Deal. It hadn't done any such thing...
...House Armed Services Committee was going to get to the bottom of the anonymous charges that the Air Force's B-36 bomber had been bought in fraud and double-dealing and that the bomber itself was not much good. The hot newsreel floodlights, which went into use only at dramatic moments, were turned...
London's Economist last week complained of a problem: when it defends the Labor government against its critics, the British Socialists use it as evidence that the anti-Socialist Economist has all but gone Socialist; when it criticizes the Labor government, anti-Socialists in the U.S. cite the Economist as an authority to show that Socialism is no good. "From this dilemma there is only one escape," wrote the Economist, "and that is, for once, to give both sides of every medal...
...Mead fell from fashion after the Reformation cut down the use of beeswax for church candles; apiarists, no longer able to sell their byproduct wax to the chandlers, found it unprofitable to make honey just for the mead makers...
...University of Illinois' Dr. Donald W. Kerst, inventor of the betatron (TIME, Dec. 29, 1941), hopes that the doctors will learn how to cut out the middle step and use the electrons raw upon cancerous tissues...