Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wavell returned to the Near East as commander in chief in Palestine and Transjordan, largely stamped out the bloody Jewish-Arab riots. In 1939, he assumed command of the British forces in Egypt. World War II swelled his Egyptian garrison into the Imperial Army of the Nile, an amorphous instrument which he painstakingly fashioned into a weapon that drove the Italians out of Cyrenaica. It was a famous victory at a time when Britain, standing singlehanded against the Axis might, was staggering under successive defeats. For the first time the name of Wavell was heard round the world...
Teacher Salzedo rules his brood of high-strung harpists with a soft voice and an iron hand. He begins the summer session by outlawing the wearing of slacks, ordering the hair to be worn on top of the head ("It goes with the instrument") and personally trimming each student's fingernails to the quick...
...week's end, the President still held up final approval of CAB's work. One reason: the Senate committee, which has already voted down the "chosen instrument" policy of Pan Am's Juan Trippe, intended to vote on a substitute bill to do virtually the same thing-i.e., make Pan Am the chosen instrument by barring domestic lines from international routes. It was expected that that bill would also be defeated. But if there is any more delay, most airmen expect the President to act. It would be high time...
...however, report more than mere agreement. The charter agreed upon is one which fulfills our hopes even beyond our expectations. . . . [We sought] that these [Dumbarton Oaks] proposals should be modified in important respects. That has been done. The charter which emerges from San Francisco is a totally different instrument from the draft of Dumbarton Oaks...
...have said enough to show that the San Francisco conference was not a conference which merely ratified a text which the Big Powers presented. The San Francisco conference performed a great task of creation. It gave birth to an instrument which can be a Magna Carta for the world. ... I can see no reasonable ground for Christian people now to hesitate in their support of the San Francisco charter...