Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Armenians in Turkey and in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. Precept and propaganda had already aroused a strong separatist urge among Iran's Armenians. At any moment blood might call to blood across the boundaries. In skilled Soviet hands, this interplay of nationalisms would be a potent instrument of policy. Recently, in Azerbaijan, a pro-Russian Democratic Kurdish Party significantly burgeoned into being...
Sabotage and Damns. In Churchill's coalition Cabinet, Labor had acquiesced in the "chosen-instrument" policy of Tory Lord Swinton, then Civil Aviation Minister. He had recommended that three privately owned, State-backed companies operate 1) North American, British Commonwealth and Far Eastern services, 2) domestic and European routes, 3) routes to and from South America. Now, in junking this scheme, Swinton's successor, Lord Winster, apparently acted against his own better judgment, bowed to the party's Civil Aviation Committee. Last week, in the House of Lords, outraged Lord Swinton said that the new scheme...
...Securities, Ltd., and Dial and Instrument Finishers, Ltd., both of Toronto...
...problem in designing the instrument was to eliminate false signals from sunshine or artificial light. So the beam was made to pulsate like the radio waves from a radar transmitter, and the photoelectric tube was made insensitive to nonpulsating light...
Acción Democrática. Although young, Army officers had apparently inspired most of the fighting, the men behind the revolution were chubby, liberal Rómulo Betancourt, new Provisional President, and shy, famed novelist Rómulo Gallegos Freire. Their Democratic Action Party was the political instrument...