Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spykman accepts the fact "that there will always be conflict, and that war will remain a necessary instrument in the preservation of a balance of power...
...Wondering for the first time whether he really did have any blood, Vag was interrupted by another lady who called, "Number 56? Please follow me." He was led to a desk where a nurse took his temperature and pulse, then swabbed his finger with alcohol. Producing a lethal little instrument resembling a fountain pen, she placed it on his finger and released the catch. Vag gave a little yelp as a pinpoint suddenly pierced his skin, and the nurse squeezed out a little blood onto a plate. "Thank you," she said, "and now would you go over there to drink...
Many of the chief instruments of surgery were known and used at the time of Hippocrates, 400 B.C., and some of them have changed little since. Some Roman scalpels would hardly look out of place on the instrument table of a modern operating theater...
When a Hindu wants attention, he beats on a gong. To drive away evil luck, he blows a bleating blast on a sankha, an instrument shaped like a big ocarina. Last week, in Manhattan's tiny Carnegie Chamber Music Hall, there was both gong-beating and sankha-blowing. The occasion was an evening of Hindu dances, put on by two Hindus, Bhupesh Guha and Sushila, who live, teach and foster their dance troupe in the backwaters of Manhattan...
...also "certain defects," lack of appreciation of subordinates, unwillingness to admit shortcomings, a tendency to complain and be sorry for himself. But "these were the defects of the qualities that made him a great historical figure. For he was not, like a Washington, a Cromwell or a Bolivar, an instrument chosen by multitudes to express their wills. . . . He was Man alone with God against human stupidity and depravity, against greedy conquistadors, cowardly seamen, even against nature...