Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sorts of odd dialogue. At one point a female whispered urgently: "When you are ready, bang and get them out." Just as urgently, Council Chairman Dr. Quo Tai-chi of China replied: "I haven't got anything to bang with. They have deprived me of the instrument with which to function." All these were little things, but they made UNO something as believable to U.S. newspaper readers as the U.S. Congress or a C.I.O. convention. Perhaps not enough Americans were aware of the gravity of the Iranian problem and Ambassador Gromyko's walkout (see INTERNATIONAL...
Limit on Reparations. "Reparations should be limited to productive capacity over & above that required to maintain average living standards. Reparations should not be an instrument of revenge. There should be no enslavement. . . . No lasting peace can be built upon revenge, or be founded upon oppression. The strong must adopt enlightened policies at some cost to themselves to achieve a reunited world...
...reasoned, are messy inside and out, but the precise, blankly implacable machines they kill with have a brutal beauty. Ever since then, Fernand Léger (rhymes with beige hay) has been painting flat, bright-colored pictures which look as smoothly efficient, and as difficult to comprehend, as the instrument panel...
...commercial airlines are concerned, there has been no basic change in air traffic control, airway marking, or instrument landing equipment in 15 years-a period that has seen an enormous increase in scheduled flights and the advent of 300-mile-an-hour transports...
European nationalism in the mid-20th Century had reached a pitch which forced Jews to react with a desperate nationalism of their own. But between them and a Palestine refuge stood another offshoot of European chauvinism, the awakened nationalism of the Arab states and their new instrument, the Arab League. Only superficially was the current Zionist issue the same as before the war. On both sides the pressures had become many times as intense and explosive...