Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Someday, perhaps, medical science will equip us all with permanent false teeth that can be installed at birth and that will last throughout our lives, remaining as shiny and sturdy as ever. When that day arrives the Colgate people will have to leave chlorophyll to the plants, and the dentist, perhaps the least enjoyed appendage of modern civilization, will at last go the way of the alchemist...
...Given two old barracks to work in, he immediately--without authority--commissioned Army carpenters to make classrooms out of them and hi-jacked a shipment of chairs headed for GHQ. Acting with consummate nerve, Seavey even turned in an order for a thousand fountain pens to equip the students he did not yet have. (The Army was not that dumb, however; it refused.) Finally, just four days after the whole thing started, he was ready to begin teaching. More than 150 students showed up and the school lasted--very successfully--for some three months. He ended up with another medal...
...could work more smoothly for the betterment of all. A critic of the University of Chicago's nuclear physicist Harold C. Urey, who recently questioned the fairness of the Rosenburg and Sobell treason trials, wrote that "Professor Urey is undoubtedly a scientist of high order, that fact does not equip him to hold an opinion better than the rest of us who may not know how to make heavy water, but who know and feel the claims of justice." When Harold Urey comments on American law, or Albert Einstein comments on the United Nations, it seems obvious that they...
...situation, according to Malaya's Lieut. General Sir Geoffrey Bourne, is "potentially nasty." The British are sending paratroop reinforcements to the rubber-rich colony, and last month decided to equip three Malayan airfields for jetbomber use. The Australians are training 1,200 infantrymen for jungle war, and last week the senior generals of both Australia and New Zealand inspected Malaya...
...international conferences, reluctant to accept arms from the West against Burma's own Communist rebellion. Last week however, U Nu found a canny way out of his difficulties: in exchange for some of Burma's piled-up rice surplus, he would collect enough military hardware to equip a brigade-not from the suspect West, but from his acceptably socialist visitor, Marshal Tito. Left unsaid was the fact that Tito would have guns to spare only because he himself is being handsomely armed by Britain...