Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moving toward employment of its enormous lending power as an instrument of foreign policy? One New York banker who commutes to Washington thought such use long overdue. Said he: "If I were permitted to characterize our credits over past years in one four-letter word, I'd use the word 'Gaps.' " He explained that U.S. diplomats dicker, and U.S. credit agencies lend, without much connection between them. Thus the diplomats often find they lack a bargaining weapon suited to everyday use in diplomatic give and take...
...strongest power, the world knew that the atomic bomb, for instance, could not be used unless the U.S. public recognized the objectives as genuinely vital to the nation. To achieve limited, non-vital objectives in Europe and Asia (see Col. 5), U.S. economic power seemed the appropriate instrument...
...first no paper could be found suitable for printing the instrument of surrender, but in the basement of the Catholic Trade School were just enough sheets of rich, heavy parchment. Army engineers printed the job in offset. It was decided to use plain staples, instead of white satin bows, to bind the sheets...
...Johns Hopkins, keen, blue-eyed Dr. Young soon developed the virtuosity he had lacked in San Antonio. He devised many new operations, many new instruments to perform them with. Mortality in operations for removal of the prostate gland was 20% when he began. His record in 3,000 operations: 3%. He was famed for: 1) his part in developing Mercurochrome as a bloodstream disinfectant (now superseded by sulfa drugs and penicillin); 2) a radical operation for cancer of the prostate; 3) a method of removing the prostate through the urinary outlet; 4) operations which made many a pseudohermaphrodite nearly normal...
...write: "The Japanese emissaries have . . . imparted all information required. ... In my capacity as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers I shall soon proceed to Japan with accompanying forces composed of ground, naval and air elements. Subject to weather that will permit landings, it is anticipated that the instrument of surrender will be signed within ten days. ... It is my earnest hope that pending the formal. . . surrender, armistice conditions may prevail on every front and that a bloodless surrender may be effectuated...