Word: ize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holdouts is Robert R. Young's Chesapeake & Ohio, which earns 80% of its income from coal-hauling. Asked recently when C. & 0. would diesel-ize, a Young aide snapped: "Never, I hope." With his new coal-burning steam turbine "500" locomotive, now touring the country, Bob Young hopes to prove that he has something better than a diesel. His engine is closer to the next development which he thinks will crowd out the diesels-the oil-or coal-burning gas turbine locomotives...
...continued his testimony about his trials as No. 1 Japanese puppet (TIME, Aug. 19). In 1940, he reported, Emperor Hirohito had invited him to Tokyo, feted him, presented him with two gifts-a mirror and a sword (both sacred Shinto symbols),* and then sent him home to Shinto-ize Manchukuo. Said Pu-yi, who previously testified that the Japanese had murdered his wife: "It was my greatest humiliation...
...interval between Yalta and San Francisco, Senator Vandenberg worked long & hard at another project: to liberal ize the provisions of Dumbarton Oaks...
...does not conduct its affairs as the State of New York thinks it should conduct them," he declaimed, "these crusaders, these Sir Galahads, mount their steeds and come down into Texas to modify us, and to Christianize us, and to liberalize us, and to modernize us and to intelligence-ize...