Word: uses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began to seem to the old soldier to be neglect. The only people who sought him out in his suburban home were Karamanlis' leftist opponents. Since they were well aware that in World War II Grivas led a secret right-wing movement called X, they presumably intended to use him only as a stick to beat Premier Karamanlis...
...bureaucracy. None of the armed forces would give him notice of projected firings; Tepee's men finally had to set up their own system of volunteer watchers on Cape Canaveral to warn them when a firing seemed imminent. Meanwhile, the FCC caviled about the frequencies he wanted to use. But such nonscientific problems came to an end in November, when Thaler tracked a Polaris so accurately that the top brass was immediately sold, gave him an appropriation of $400,000 to cover his expenses...
Souped-Up Power. The water monsters that these men drive are so souped up that the Gold Cup tactics are largely based on simply finishing the race. For power, the hydroplanes use either the Rolls-Royce Merlin or the U.S.-made Allison, which drove some of World War II's fastest fighters. Normally, these engines generate around 1,600 h.p. at 3,000 r.p.m. But this is not enough for the hydroplaners. Mechanics bolster the engines with fancy superchargers and heavy-duty quill shafts until they can turn out some 2,650 h.p. at 4,500 r.p.m., then...
...Andrew Wyeth's Children's Doctor and Edward Hooper's stark, vivid Lighthouse at Two Lights are the standout favorites. Among the sculptures on display, Gaston Lachaise's hugely curvaceous Standing Woman is a cynosure. Commented one visitor in the exhibition guest book: "We could use a hefty girl like that in our plant...
Born Marco Spinelli in Pittsburgh (his father is an Italian count, but Marco will not inherit the title, blandly admits that his use of it is "crass and commercial"), wispy, mustachioed Count Marco, 41, is a widower, an ex-actor (he played the fool in Twelfth Night), ex-producer of television soap operas, ex-hairdresser. His column "Beauty and the Beast," smirkingly instructs San Francisco housewives on all manner of boudoir-and-bathroom behavior. A prize example...