Word: instrument
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...have been and remain committed to the use of force and the threat of force as a major instrument of foreign policy. This will require the United States to engage repeatedly in a test of will and nerve with the Chinese Communists in which an important component will be the need to communicate restraint combined with an indication of what the United States is prepared to do in the event of Chinese expansion of a local conflict in a way that seems detrimental to American interest...
...sanctification of law is an example. If the worst repression can be called "legal" then it is OK. "Illegality," becomes an aesthetic judgment. McCarthy had to be dealt with, for he too challenged the subtly-honed instrument of the liberal state, dragging it into the mire of recognizable personality. As Pusey says, those were not pleasant times. He finds them analogous to the present because he is once again threatened by voices which claim to speak for the people. Yet it is impossibly ignorant to say that because both right and left threaten the liberal center, they are the same...
...Harvard and Cambridge, not to mention three centuries of New England ancestors, he always felt deprived of at least one thing. "I was never able to consider seriously doing what I could do quite well, which was to throw a ball," Plimpton says, somewhat wistfully. "It was the first instrument of superiority I found myself owning." ∙ Failure is Plimpton's fascination, but for him the line between failure and success is not always distinct -and not always where it seems to be. There is, he thinks, a certain "tragedy in being better. The successful man of any profession...
...heir apparent. Just as the Mass was about to begin, the doors of the chapel swung open and Urban VIII, clad in full pontifical robes, strode in. Cardinal Zacchia abruptly collapsed, stricken with a heart attack. Wrote Urban later: the air at Castel Gandolfo had been "the instrument that God used to preserve my life...
...instrument or no, the air at Castel Gandolfo has refreshed 13 Popes since the time of Urban VIII, the first Pontiff to use the villa as a summer retreat from the oppressive mugginess of summertime Rome. This year Paul VI is continuing the pleasant tradition, which has been skipped by only a small number of Popes-mainly those who considered themselves "prisoners of the Vatican" after the unification of Italy in 1870. When the Italian government recognized the Castel Gandolfo estate as an extraterritorial part of an independent Vatican in 1929, Pope Pius XI promptly refurbished the place, noting ruefully...