Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Oldenberg, the reason that Geiger counters in the Rochester, N.Y. area were able to detect radiation after Saturday's snow is that the instruments are exceedingly sensitive. "If you approach a Geiger counter with a wrist-watch which has a luminous dial, it will sound like a thunder-storm," he pointed...
...Wrist-Slapping. To enforce price controls, Mike DiSalle profited by mistakes of OPA in World War II. Then essential, low-priced items disappeared from the shelves as manufacturers channeled their materials into fancy sports shirts, frilly dresses and expensive gimcracks which brought fatter profits. In his freeze order, DiSalle prohibited manufacturers from switching to higher-priced lines, or producing cheaper "similar" products for the same price. He persuaded Mobilizer Wilson to issue a new order to his Defense Production Administration-it authorized DPA to use its priorities and allocations to force manufacturers to produce adequate quantities of inexpensive apparel...
...other Government investigators to comb the country for price-control violators. With that kind of help, the OPS hoped to root out violators early and punish them heavily (maximum penalty under the law: a year in jail, $10,000 fine) to discourage other violators. "There will be no wrist-slapping," promised a price official...
...else. Valentine put in a distress call for the price czars of World War II days-Leon Henderson, Paul Porter, Chester Bowles-and conferred earnestly with them for two days. He patched together some suggestions and sent them to Wilson. They were not enough. With a flick of his wrist, Mobilizer Wilson got Valentine fired and installed in his place Washington-wise Eric Johnston, $125,000-a-year boss of Hollywood's Hays office and ex-president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (see below). Before Johnston even got his feet planted under a bureaucratic desk, a freeze...
Here was a conception brand-new to the long and fruity annals of jurisprudence. Under this conception, if the policeman finds that the dagger has penetrated the victim's flesh, it is permitted that he seize the criminal by the wrist and force him to withdraw the knife; but he may not take the dagger away, much less arrest the criminal...