Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Instrument. Since the U.S. had no veto power, all Cavendish Cannon could have done (and that might have been plenty) would have been to present the U.S.'s case loudly and firmly. He was not the man for that...
...navigation on the Danube for all nations be ruled on by the World Court, Vishinsky said that the Court's judges were incompetent on the issue because they could not be impartial. "I don't accept the contention that politics ends where law begins. Law is the instrument of politics...
...Church is not something made by men. It is the instrument of the living God for the setting-forward of His reign on earth . . . This is an hour of testing and peril for the Church, no less than for the world. But it is the hour of God's call to the Church . . . For those who have eyes to see, there are signs that the tide of faith is beginning to come...
Someone in your family plays a musical instrument (the odds are it's the piano, but it could be the violin, clarinet or saxophone). You entertain eleven guests a week for dinner, lunch, bridge or the weekend, and you figure it costs you nearly a thousand dollars a year...
...Gallacher backed Eden, shouting "A sellout!" Cripps's own Socialist supporters asked if the nationalization of iron and steel would be delayed if U.S. private enterprise was called in as adviser. The fears and frustrations of a dogged, weary nation came tumbling out. Was this council an economic instrument whereby America could keep a hold on Britain through EGA? Would it cut British exports? Would it give Americans a competitive advantage...