Word: uses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble began when Strauss, on his way to an appointment with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, decided to use a short cut-a small, one-way alley officially reserved for der Alte himself but informally open to any of his ministers. When Bonn Traffic Officer Siegfried Hahlbohm, 24, failed to give Strauss's car an immediate signal into the alley, the impatient minister ordered his driver, Leonhard Kaiser, to go ahead anyway. Kaiser did so, thereby forcing the conductor of an oncoming trolley car on the main thoroughfare to slam on his emergency brake. As Strauss's grey BMW sedan...
...many Catholic hospitals [which] practice policies of racial exclusion or segregation." A third was directed at President Eisenhower's "go slow" words on school integration: "At this critical time in world history, the people of the United States have a right to expect their Chief Executive to use the full moral authority of his office to secure full equality for all citizens in all parts of our nation...
...after tubes instead of one big tube. "The big, doughnut-shaped exhaust roar," said a Boeing engineer, "was broken down into 21 smaller, bagel-sized noises." The loss in efficiency: only 2% loss in thrust (v. up to 20% in earlier supressor devices), plus a 2% increase in fuel use...
...soon as SEC's investigation started, the Stock Exchange also moved in to brake any big drop in Artloom stock. It banned the use of "stop orders"; i.e., orders placed in advance by stockholders to sell (or buy) when the stock reaches a certain price. Such orders to sell, as they are successively executed, often send a stock plummeting. Nevertheless, Art-loom's price sagged last week...
...cups. Medievalist White has small use for the modern world, and bitterly resents Britain's decline. He is likely to poke a horny forefinger into the nearest American chest and hiss dramatically, "You pinched my bloody empire from me." A tormented man, by turns merry and melancholy, Tim White admits to a lifelong inferiority complex. Spurred by fear, he pushed himself into physical adventure. He has piloted a plane, learned to skindive with ill-fated Commander Crabb, stayed awake three days and nights to achieve mastery over a fierce, untamed hawk (The Goshawk...