Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have a powerful new instrument for psychic investigation--LSD--and it seems of utmost importance to explore fully the ways in which LSD may be used to accelerate spiritual progress. And that is what we will...
...Instrument, O'Hara...
...with the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II, he was shot down in the Pacific in 1942, lived for days on turtle eggs and fish until his rescue, then went through painful plastic surgery for injuries he had received when his face "got mixed up with the instrument panel." As he sailed home at last on leave, his boat was torpedoed, and he spent another day and a night on a raft, chest-deep in water, before his second rescue. Today, in his amiably crumpled face, Gorton proudly wears the scars of his ordeal...
...Curle, secular peace-making is a surprisingly religious affair. Quakerism provides his aversion to violence and his admission to the negotiating table. "Quakers are in a fortunate position," Curle reflects, "because most people think of them as not being anybody's instrument, as being concerned with peace rather than who wins.... Sometimes leaders under pressure like to talk to someone who has no political axe to grind...
...reply, Califano said the Selective Service System "is not an instrument to repress and punish unpopular views." He said the system does not "vest in draft boards the judicial role in determining the legality of individual conduct...