Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patents to Eastern capitalists in 1915. Orville had conceived the plane as a convenience for private citizens. He watched with pride and considerable dismay as planes became bigger and faster. Thanks to his pioneering, every nation would be made a neighbor. He had also unwittingly created an instrument of destruction that would loose unimagined violence upon the world...
...Could Spit . . ." With independence, Gandhi's great victory, came defeat. India, seething with fear and fanaticism, spurted blood in scores of riots. Mohamed Ali Jinnah, once a member of Gandhi's All-India Congress Party, bolted, saying that the Congress was an instrument to impose Hindu rule on India's Moslem minority. With a notably unmystical metaphor, Gandhi said: "If we Indians could only spit in unison, we would form a puddle big enough to drown 300,000 Englishmen." But Jinnah refused to spit in unison with Hindus, for any cause. He demanded, and got, his separate...
...already been made. Part of the profound change that has overtaken Britons in the last year has been the growing awareness that they are Europeans, no longer islanded in glorious and superior detachment. Recognition of Russia as Britain's enemy and European Communism as the enemy's instrument has proceeded apace for many months; the process is now well nigh complete...
...three days of rioting, eleven people were killed. Regent Abdul Illah nervously announced: "Whereas ... the treaty does not realize national rights and aspirations and cannot be a useful instrument to foster Anglo-Iraqi friendship, we promise the Iraqi people that no such treaty will be ratified...
...years have been as kind to the fellowship as they were to the instrument of its early publicity. At the moment, the fellowship is held by two graduate students, Stainslaw Wellisz and Harold Ferdinand Van Ummerson. The principal has new mounted to $16,137.08 according to the latest Treasurer's Statement, published over the signature of William H. Clatlin. Mrs Clatlin dabbles in archaeology...