Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winship would like, perhaps most of all, to have a hand in political and social reform. TheGlobeis the instrument for political action he has been given to manage, and he has instnictively worked to make the old home-town paper an effective political organ. "Winship will promote anything aimed at the development of the core city," observes Alexander Haviland, the Globe'sexecutive editor...
Having noted that much testimony could sensibly be taken over the telephone, California Judge Leon Emerson during the past year has been using a unique new courtroom tool: a speakerphone. The instrument is sensitive enough to pick up the courtroom questions of defense and prosecuting attorneys. The witness is sworn over the loudspeaker telephone, and his voice is amplified so that everyone can hear what he says...
Businessmen are always talking about ways to end that chronic corporate ailment, the time-wasting conference. Now Danish Engineer Søren T. Lyngsø 46, head of a Copenhagen-based industrial instrument firm, has come forward with a conference-room conversation stopper: a sort of electronic tote board that reminds company staffers that talk is far from cheap...
...Nebraska 1888-election year, git the topicality? Grandpa composes a real rip-snortin' campaign song for Cleveland (Let's Put It Over with Grover) and every dang one of his relations accompanies him on a instrument. There's Mom (Janet Blair), Dad (Buddy Ebsen) and eight kids so durn sweet you could eat 'em up, cep'n they'd cause diabetes. Wai, 'fore you know it everybody's bein' as colorful as a cartoon, droppin' g's, singin' passels of ungrammatical songs (" 'bout you, 'bout...
...Guns is a story about a renegade soldier in 18th century Mexico, with a price on his head, who is given sanctuary by an old priest (Sam Jaffe) in the village of San Sebastian. The priest is murdered by the fierce Yaqui Indians, who attack the church as an instrument of the hated white man. They torture Quinn and order him to leave. A village girl (Anjanette Comer), plus his conscience, plus the devotion of the hapless villagers who mistake him for a priest all manage to change his course and set things up for an epic battle with...