Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Africans; 3) establishment of Government monopolies and expropriation of private property at the discretion of the President; 4) declaration of a state of siege if & when the President deems necessary. In the hands of a race-conscious, ambitious man-which Arnulfo Arias is-such a constitution could be the instrument of dictatorship...
...Deutsche Christen, who like Reichsbishop Muller wanted to make the Church the obedient instrument of the State, and who have never numbered more than 3,000 pastors...
...issue. It was already before the country when the two major political parties were holding their national conventions last June and July. The representatives of the greater part of the American People in attendance at the conventions decided against resort to war at that time as an instrument of national policy. The Republican platform declared explicitly and unequivocally that "the Republican party is firmly opposed to involving this Nation in foreign war." The Democratic platform was equally explicit and unequivecal. "We will not participate in foreign wars," it declared, "and we will not send our army, naval or air forces...
...bristling statement he had prepared for just such a situation, Henritze gave his fellow members something to think about: "Safeway is emphatically against any increase in this markup. A higher markup goes beyond the sound purposes of the law and represents an attempt to use the law as an instrument to fix prices. . . . The Department of Justice already has issued warnings against combinations under any guise whatever taking advantage of the war crisis to raise prices to consumers. . . . Safeway is forced to resign." With that he left the hall, ignoring shouts that he stay to answer questions...
...going to kill a man." While the young man babbled about doing something to the husband of his cutie, Mr. Anthony passed a note to his announcer suggesting that the client's coat be searched. In it was found a foot-long jack handle-"a fine instrument for murder," as Mr. Anthony now points out. From this distraught juvenile, Mr. Anthony won a promise not to do anything until the next day. By that time Mr. Anthony had a psychiatrist ready, who subsequently worked a cure...