Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finished-canvas broad-brushed by Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov in 41 months of battling back from Moscow. In the dust and ashes of death, Berlin stood as a monument to the enormous sufferings and the monumental resolution of the Red Army, and imperturbable Marshal Zhukov had been the chief instrument of that Army's victory. Up from the darkest days before Moscow, up from the bloody pit of Stalingrad and the snows and mud and dust of the Ukraine and Poland, he now stood before Berlin as one of the truly great military leaders of World...
Zhukov seemed to be marked for more history. Stalin's politically reliable, pious Communist confidant, he might now be the instrument for the delicate tasks of governing a beaten Germany and a destroyed Japanese army...
...heat can sterilize a bottle and a surgical instrument, why can't heat sterilize a man? A scientist who thought up this murky question, and has been brooding over it, is Biologist Raymond B. Cowles of the University of California at Los Angeles...
...game he was after, he had need of all this statistical ammunition. As a spokesman for 17 U.S. airlines, hawk-nosed Ralph Shepard Damon, vice president and general manager of American Airlines, hoped to kill off, once & for all, the monopolistic chosen instrument-or community company-which Pan American's Juan Trippe advocates as the keystone of U.S. international air policy...
Unwanted Policy. Now firmly planted in the field which Pan Am pioneered, they do not intend to get out. There seemed little chance that they would have to. Two months ago, the Senate subcommittee seemed on the verge of recommending to Congress that the U.S. adopt a chosen-instrument policy. But in the last few weeks, under heavy fire from the Army. Navy and CAB, the idea has steadily lost ground. American's Damon may well have given monopoly its coup...