Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German writer appeals to humanity to condemn the brutal sadism of the Austrians, and they indict, in their righteous anger, the sub-human cruelty of any people who could devise a concentration camp as an instrument of state control...
...while things jell. Cho Mansik, called the Gandhi of Korea, is a Christian church elder whom the Russians reportedly brought out of retirement to head the municipal government of industrial Pyengyang. As for the long-exiled government at Chung king, some Koreans would welcome it as a ready-made instrument for wielding political power. More likely, its members will return as private individuals...
...their followers; it shattered the illusions of the isolationists; and it all but demolished the silly argument that governmental planning is ineffective and incompatible with democracy. It was public investment and government planning-the kind of planning that we rejected in peacetime-that enabled us to discover the instrument which finally smashed the last hopes of those who still think in terms of superior and inferior peoples, predatory individualism, and unrestrained aggressiveness...
...World War II the battleship was the dodo. In the next war-if there "is one-:the heavy bomber will probably be. For the heavy bomber is finished as the main striking instrument...
Fast Finish. As power politics flared in Europe and Asia, the bank's business boomed. The character and purpose of its loans underwent a change. Instead of an implement to foster U.S. world trade, the bank became an instrument of foreign policy. Its loans were made more for political reasons than economic...