Word: instrumental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...function as an independent party. If we had one hope in a thousand that we could redirect the present Socialist Party towards its true role, we would remain. This hope we do not have. We must give the laboring masses a true Socialist Party which can be their faithful instrument. We are now prepared to create that instrument in a new party...
...became the Gertrude Stein of his instrument is still a matter for conjecture. Historians tell us that he didn't become familiar with the saxophone until rather late in life, at seventeen to be exact, and perhaps as a result he never really became reconciled to it. Whatever the reason, as in the case of other commodities of a rank or distasteful appearance like Limburger cheese, pickled snails, or Italian grappa, his music has a strong and peculiar attraction for a certain select few who accept nothing else as a substitute...
...thirds of a majority of the College will be required to put the new instrument into operation. If the draft is accepted each House will elect one man to the Council sometime in February. Electees will merely fill out the terms of the seven or more members whose terms expire on February 3. The first regular full election under the new constitution will be held in May, when a '47-'48 Council will be named...
...various nations' foreign ministeries met without the U. S. representatives excoriating the Soviet Union for its actions of international bad faith and suspicion on this point. The American finger has been pointed at the Russians, often shaken under their noses for their treatment of the UN as another instrument of power politics and for their refusal to evacuate certain former enemy lands along her borders...
...technique used involved a specially contrived hocked instrument, which "fished" the $90 note out through the slit. This method, he conjectured, would be particularly effective if the check rested on a stack of Christmas cards and other uncollected Yuletide communications...