Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worker raised his hand and said: "Comrade, what shall we do with these airplanes? We don't have any use for them...
...Miami, the FBI also picked up Edward Browder Jr.,* a former R.A.F. pilot who was already under sentence for stealing 21 machine guns from a U.S. Government arsenal last April for use against Betancourt. Browder, the FBI said, organized last week's bombing mission, recruited the U.S. flyers and promised the pilots $30,000 apiece for the job. The question the FBI did not answer: Who financed Browder and paid for the planes...
...darting eye. In a single week, he looked at plays of violence, Dartmouth College, the Marshall Plan, Herodotus, New Mexico (from dinosaurs to A-bombs), "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Eastern potentates, bestsellers, babysitting, Eva Perón, the War Assets Administration and Existentialism. Strunsky's skillful use of the telling fact, the apt comparison, the impeccable word made "Topics" a model of the vanishing essay form. Without blushing, his admirers, from Franklin P. Adams to Lin Yutang, compared Strunsky to Addison & Steele and Charles Lamb...
...this," grumbled hefty Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior. A warrior-god charged into musty corners, looking for his sword; bored spear carriers fumbled through a prop basket full of hunting horns. Behind the backdrop a ragged army of stagehands lounged on the rocks of the Rhine (out of use for the moment), gulping coffee from paper cartons and jeering at a stableboy who was trying to direct a sorrel horse on stage...
...transcription of Aimee's own attractively earthy voice. In another, a collection of the founder's personal belongings was on exhibition, including her Bible and her drinking cup (for orange juice). The 5,300-seat auditorium and the many other rooms were in almost constant use for rallies, seminars, motion pictures, exhibits. The elevator operator, a leafy orchid in her hair, loudly hummed What a Friend We Have in Jesus. And everywhere ministers and delegates with convention buttons as big as flying saucers were meeting and greeting...