Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sept. 1, 1939, the fishermen of Puck, Poland, lifted their faces to the grey dawn and saw man's new way of making war. It was the blitzkrieg, paced by the new instrument of air power. It rolled across Puck, rolled across Poland, rolled across Western Europe. Eight months later, in the space of 7½ minutes, it buried 30,000 Hollanders in the rubble of Rotterdam...
...feel that the maintenance ... of peace in the world depends upon the strength of the United States." The commission agreed with him. The mere existence of a great U.S. force, in fact, might be a deterrent to a world aggressor. Peace might yet be achieved through the very instrument which had become the world's most destructive force: air power...
...Sinaia near Bucharest, when the telephone rang. It was a summons to Bucharest from the king's first minister, Communist stooge Petru Groza, "to discuss important matters." The king set off at 3 a.m., was received in the Villa Elizabeth by Groza and comrades, who handed him an instrument of abdication, complete and ready for the king's signature. Said Michael: "If I refuse to sign you cannot force me." "In that case," replied Groza suavely, "thousands will be arrested. Rumania will be steeped in blood. I am sure Your Majesty does not want such a thing...
...proposal around which a small hurricane of opposition is being created occupied a rather secondary position in the speech, and constitute the position at which it is most vulnerable to attack as being a political instrument. But if the $40 tax cut is intended to be a vote-attracting mechanism, it also provides a means by which the Democrats can oppose the type of tax cuts advocated by the Republicans and at the same time avoid being put in the position of opposing tax cuts of any kind...
...Easy. Best way to spread airborne infection in a laboratory, the researchers found, is "an all-glass, direct-spray peripheral air-jet instrument," much like a perfume atomizer. In wartime, the same technique might be applied by airplanes spraying disease as they now spray insecticides over truck farms. The raw materials of bacteriological warfare are easy to stockpile, and it is not really necessary to kill wholesale. Causing civilian panic should be fairly simple and adequate...