Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Divine Instrument. His nation was stunned. In the cities, whites and blacks fought for copies of the newspaper extras that brought the first word of the assassination. In Johannesburg, a bus driver saw the headlines, stopped his bus, and fainted at the wheel. A quarter of a million South Africans, black as well as white, stood silently on the streets of Pretoria while his funeral procession filed past. Hundreds of thousands of whites flocked to their churches for solace. "May the God in whom we believe make clear to us in his own time what this horrible event...
...Dockeray, a pathologist who appeared for the defense, told the court that Peverley's head wounds were so severe that a "colossal force" must have been used. In his opinion, the multiple fractures were far more consistent with a 20-ft. plunge than with blows by a blunt instrument...
...rocket's nose was a complex instrument package designed by Physicist Herbert Gursky and containing a sensitive X-ray scanner and a small camera pointed at Scorpio for 55 sec. of the brief ballistic flight. By measuring the changing intensity of X rays detected by the scanner and coordinating the scanner with the camera, Giacconi's group was able to locate Scorpio's X-ray source about 1,000 times as accurately as any previous studies. They also determined the angular size of the radiating object itself, and concluded that the X-ray source would probably appear...
...Instrument. S.E.T. is so odd an instrument that when it was introduced last May by Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan, M.P.s of all parties, who had been ready to whoop into battle, were virtually stunned into silence...
Make It Sexy. It was inevitable that one day Baldwin would get tired of being second in the concert halls and would try harder to improve its instrument. The result is the piano that sounded so good that day at Town Hall: Baldwin's new model, SD-10. Guided by such consultants as Leonard Bernstein and Cincinnati Symphony Conductor Max Rudolf, Baldwin's experts worked for ten years revamping the instrument's inner parts to increase its reverberation and enhance its timbre. They altered the length, size and layout of the strings, redesigned the bridge, which transmits...