Word: uses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party?" I asked to change the subject, It worked. "Man," said my roommate, suddenly expansive, even eloquent, "it was King Party, like--a term I do not use lightly...
...Pillowcase. To capture the deadly black mamba, the wardens use a fishing rod adapted to pull a noose around the snake's neck; the snake is then gingerly deposited in a pillowcase. Dassies (shrill-voiced, rabbity creatures, distantly related to the elephant) and porcupines are deliberately driven into the water since, despite their small size, dassies bite when cornered and porcupines are armed with quills. Even in the water, it takes three men to outwit a porcupine...
...parents complained because their children were getting failing marks, Principal Edwin Anderson of the Prosser, Wash, high school made a survey, ventured an answer: an educational mixture too rich in gasoline. His figures: of seniors with A or B grades, only 11% own cars or have the use of them regularly. Among C-grade seniors, 33% have cars, and 62% of the C-minus-to-failing seniors are motorized. Cars owned by juniors with A or B grades, none; with C grades, 31%; and with C-minus-to-failing marks...
...Use of Buildings. "I know many campuses where a gunshot in the middle of the afternoon would not only hit no one; there would scarcely be anyone about to hear it. One president discovered that some 80% of all the classes in the university were held in the forenoon. He said it was hardly fair to ask the legislature for more buildings, unless the university made better use of the ones it had. After a year of urging, he succeeded in getting the proportion of morning classes reduced from...
Hard Core. Behind this extraordinary tolerance is A. T. & T.'s conviction that revenues can be raised much faster by increasing the use of the phone rather than trying to expand geographically (it has all but ended such expansion) to keep up with population growth. A. T. A. T. & T.'s soft sell has a hard core. In streams of enticing ads it pushes telephone extensions ("What a beautiful way to save steps!"), phones in color (more than 8,000,000 in the U.S.), and frequent use of the long-distance wires to call Granny (three or four...