Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What is a "weapon of mass destruction?" The Bomb, for one thing; but there are other potential horrors. The U.N.'s Commission for Conventional Armaments last week pondered the category of weapons of mass destruction, and U.S. Adviser Franklin A. Lindsay proposed this definition: "Any instrument or invention capable of destroying life and property on the scale of a plague, a flood, a famine or an earthquake...
Screamed tough, wiry Communist Leader Otello Barbi: "You cornacchiacce, you dirty black ravens, you always turn everything into an instrument of propaganda in your favor. You just want all poor to be forced to sign on to the parish list." Salvatore Gallo, a stocky Christian Democrat, rose from his café table in the square: "You volponaccio rosso, you sly red fox, you know very well that the parish helps all the poor. It's only that you want the poor to be forced to come to you Communists." Barbi rushed up: "You lying cornacchia, we think only...
...power to become the genuine autocrat of Russia. ... So far only the bourgeois press has been extinguished. . . ." Twenty-one days later: "In Petrograd the Bolsheviks are closing up the press with sadistic cruelty indeed." Thirty-three days later: "Preliminary censorship! All fools and scoundrels have protected themselves by this instrument." Lenin had answered: "Capitalism purchases the Zaslavskys in its own interests...
...pigeon's own magnetic compass could not, by itself, bring him back to his roost. Like a ship, a pigeon needs some other instrument too. Many places on the earth's surface have identical magnetic conditions. A pigeon guided by his compass alone might end up almost anywhere...
...with latitude; objects near the equator are carried daily around the earth's whole circumference, moving at over 1,000 m.p.h. Objects near the poles are carried around more slowly in smaller, tighter circles. The direction and variation of this circling can be felt by various man-made instruments, such as the gyrocompass. Why shouldn't pigeons feel it, too? If they could, they would have, along with their "magnetic compass," a satisfactory navigating instrument...