Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Blacks need to define as sacred the American legal system and turn its courtrooms into a forum for Black religion to voice itself. In this way the Constitution, a document initially designed to protect slavery and since used to legitimize Black oppression, could be redefined as an instrument of liberation...
Tokuno, who conducts each section in individual rehearsals, says, "I work [the sections] up so that each plays as a unit on its own. [Each] section works as a single instrument." Thus, when conductor Richard Laraga rehearses with the entire ensemble, he "conducts sections," not individual instruments, Tokuno says...
Athletics is like playing an instrument. Anyone can put the notes together in the correct order, but only a gifted few can truly make music...
...Bork in my view represents the last best hope of that movement, it's instrument and theoretician," Glassor said...
...last week was also the most recent setback suffered by South Africa in its 28-year attempt to ghettoize the country's black majority into a series of ten independent Bantustans, or homelands, legally separate from white South Africa. Conceived by the late Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd as an instrument of "grand" apartheid, his plan to engineer the total separation of the races, the homelands policy is now regarded even by the government as a practical impossibility because of South Africa's dependence on a black work force. But the legacy of the plan, in the form of four artificial...