Word: instrument
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...years on the minimum weekly salary of $290, for a seven-performance, five-day week. The League has countered with a minimum of $400 for an eight-performance, six-day week, provided that the musicians give up bonuses for such extras as performing onstage and playing more than one instrument. Says Schoenfeld: "It's incredible! They even want an increase for 'walkers...
...Murder Instrument. Church called the pistol "a murder instrument that's about as efficient as you can get." The agency has also developed two other dart-launching pistols, as well as a fountain pen that can fire deadly darts and an automobile engine-head bolt that releases a toxic substance when heated...
There's something ruthless in that attitude: it treats Rice as something less than human, purely as an instrument, a part broken down and therefore worthless. But what can I say? I have to perceive Jim Rice off the field only as a shadowy and bland image. He says he likes to fish. He comes from Anderson, S.C. He is twenty-two years old, my age, though in some ways he is probably a lot younger than I am because he has had fewer experiences, or at least not as wide a variety of them. He has been to fewer...
Today from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. you can perform on your flute, clarinet, oboe, english or french horn, bassoon, tenoroon or other wind-related instrument for representatives of the Harvard Marching, Concert and Jazz Bands. Chances are if you can simultaneously walk and produce tones in most of the standard pitches you will be accepted into one or more of these organizations. As you probably know, bands are like regular orchestras except they have masses of clarinets sitting in the violin section, bassoons for cellos, and so on. Percussionists also welcome. Also...
...truth of Kumar's innocence and the fact that Merrick is a man for whom law is an instrument of perversion and prejudice are not sufficiently unexpected to require four volumes of explanation. What does fully justify Scott's endless, repetitive probing is the struggle of the British community to avoid acknowledging the truth and the dubious morality of its presence as ruler of India. Kumar's own cultural alienation tends to make his case hopeless. He was raised from infancy in England, and he acquired upper-class speech and habits at a prestigious public school...