Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lewis explained his refusal boldly: the way to beat the Taft-Hartley Act was to ignore it completely, even to boycotting the NLRB. Other hot-eyed labor leaders had a different interpretation-Lewis, whose miners seldom used the board, was attempting to use the Taft-Hartley Act as an instrument to dominate all of labor...
...Everybody who marches with our out-fit plays an instrument," Crimson spokesman Skinner replied tersely, leaving Priscilla without a seat in the Stadium at all on Saturday...
...matter what he does, even when abroad as head of a delegation, Vishinsky is essentially the instrument-the subordinate. When Molotov is present, Vishinsky speaks only when given the signal, usually remains a deferential pace behind. The No. 2 man loads other burdens patiently upon himself. At the Foreign Ministers conference in Moscow last spring, it was Vishinsky who stayed in the center box to lead the applause for the ballerinas at each intermission and at the end, while Host Molotov and the others dashed out for drinks...
...Forward, in the cockpit, the pilot and copilot were wrestling with the controls to keep the big ship's nose up. They were flying blind. The needle registering altitude bounced crazily between 200 and 800 feet. The plane was bobbing too fast for the instrument to keep up. . . . I tried to swallow but couldn't. . . . My legs were numb from the hips down, partly from the pressure of the safety belt cutting into my belly, but mostly from fear...
Somebody once said that Harvard has lost a good many football games but it has never lost the battle between the halves. The compliment went, of course, to the Crimson-coated, white-trousered crew of instrument wielders, collectively known as the Harvard University band. With 80 returning lettermen and no real competition in sight, they look forward to a successful season...