Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even in countries like Yugoslavia, where UNRRA's local administration is relatively efficient, there were headaches for the Little Flower. The New York Post's Tom Healy wrote last week: "UNRRA has developed into a political instrument of great importance in the hands of Marshal Tito and his seven fellow Communists who rule Yugoslavia. . . . The people . . . seem unaware that the food which has kept them alive this year has come free from nations far away . . . from strongholds of democracy and capitalism. . . . Sometimes the food [is] displayed under beribboned pictures of Tito and Stalin. . . . Russia sends no food...
Juan Perón went right on using food as an instrument of policy. Peru, dependent on Argentina for its meat, got some 40 tons last month, and Lima shoppers spent hours hacienda cola (sweating out the line) outside butcher shops. Last week, as a result of Argentine manipulations, the wheat stocks were down to a thin ten days' supply when the U.S. freighter Bert Williams brought in a timely 7,900 tons. Perón was after Peruvian oil, rubber, cotton-and an Argentina-oriented Peru...
Chico, whom Bob Benchley called the Annie Oakley of the piano, obliges on that instrument as pleasantly as ever. Harpo, who once was dangerously close to artiness, still has the best of his old wildness, plus new restraint, sadness and subtlety. He is used more centrally than before, and this is on the whole his finest performance. Groucho still carries the weight of the show and the woes of the world somewhere in the kidney region and walks, accordingly, with the famous sway-backed stoop. He still fires off his lines in the voice of a baying hound, with such...
...swarmed up to the gallery. With an instrument made from stolen brass toilet parts, he spread the bars, squirmed inside and stood against the wall, waiting. Burch came back. Coy slugged him, took his rifle, .45 pistol, keys and let himself into D block...
People Get Mad. His first cartoon for the P-D was an attack on wooden railroad coaches (it showed a coffin on rails). He has been wielding a blunt instrument ever since. As a result, he says: "An awful lot of people are goddam mad at me." In 1940 Fitz, his managing editor and the chief editorial writer were arrested in St. Louis because their savage pictorial attacks on civic lawlessness and injustice evoked the wrath of a judge...