Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...target. From that point until the bombs are dropped the bombardier is in charge of the ship. Training his sight on the target he may well find (and usually does) that the pilot is not flying straight toward the target. On the pilot's board an instrument signals that he is right or left of the sighting line. Providing he holds the true line and keeps constant altitude the rest is up to the bombardier. Down the groove flies the Heinkel with its belly bomb-bay doors open. As it gets into range, the bombardier presses the bomb-release...
...policy is showing results! At last your readers, inflicted with slanted news reports, "subtle" editorializing and carefully selected stories, are beginning to react in the approved manner. It must be a great source of personal satisfaction to the editors of TIME to realize that they are using a powerful instrument to prime the people for a "glorious struggle" to "save Democracy" . . . again...
Liability. In Nazi ideology economics is an instrument of war. Against barter, against cheap and conscript labor from the conquered countries, against German economic sleight-of-hand, high-wage U. S. business is unarmed. With the Germans masters of Europe, U. S. European trade ($1,893,000,000 in 1938) will almost certainly dwindle or it will have to be conducted on Germany's disadvantageous barter terms. And if Britain loses, Germany will have 60% of the world's merchant fleet. She will control the docks of the world either directly, or by economic pressure. A shipment...
...loyally as ever for "The Boss." But also, in the politician's simple conviction that The Party is everything, he worked for the Democratic Party. Lately he had also worked for himself, on the thrilling but consistent premise that perhaps he might be his Party's next instrument in the White House...
...Corp., is elected President of the U. S. in November, he will be the first American to step into the office direct from a business job. New Dealish Columnist Samuel Grafton of the New York Post thus summarized the convention: "Instead of using the Republican Party as a professional instrument for carrying out their will, they (anti-Roosevelt business interests) have expropriated the Party and decided to do the job themselves...