Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such a military juggernaut might be a fine instrument for Realpolitik, but was it American-was it politically feasible? One of the country's greatest military men had privately said, while the plans were adrawing, that they were ridiculous-Congress would never agree to drain off so huge a proportion of the nation's young manhood, or to foot the bills even if the men all volunteered...
Jess bought the organ. When Eliza saw him dragging it from the station on a sled, she said: "Thee can have thy wife or thee can have that instrument...
...When Mattie struck up The Old Musician for the fifth time, Jess swept into the New Testament. When Mattie pulled out the fortissimo stop, Jess's resonant pleading fairly shook the studding. "Friend," said Amos Pease, when at last the agony was over, "thee's been an instrument of the Lord this night. . . . Thy prayer carried us so near to heaven's gates that now and again I thought I could hear . . . the sound of heavenly harps." "Amen, Brother. Amen to that!" cried the rest of the committee, tottering exhausted through the door...
...sent to fix the hotboxes and burnt-out bearings of the worldwide coalition which won World War II. He was the prodder and pusher for more war production, the passionate pleader for unity, the go-between from Roosevelt to Churchill and Stalin. He was and regarded himself as an instrument, with the selflessness of an instrument...
Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told a tense House of Commons last week that terror had become an instrument of national policy in the new Poland. Many members of Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party who opposed the Communist-dominated Warsaw Government had been murdered. "Circumstances in many cases appear to point to the complicity of the Polish Security Police. ... I regard it as imperative that the Polish Provisional Government should put an immediate stop to these crimes in order that free and unfettered elections may be held as soon as possible, in accordance with...