Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...craft and tact to steer around them. As an intermediary in the legislative process, he felt the pressures of various outside lobbyists upon him. Baker knew how to manipulate these interests to achieve the desired ends. Because of this instinct, Baker became an indispensable and trusted instrument of party policy. The subtle and not so subtle use of influence was a game Baker played with the finesse of his mentor, of the Byrds, the Russells, and the Kerrs...
Kerr, who conceded that the F.S.M. at first reflected an "understandable concern" over student political rights, assailed the dissidents as "an instrument of anarchy and political aggrandizement." Even before the sit-in, he had concluded that a handful of activists in the demonstrations "have been impressed with the tactics of Fidel Castro and Mao Tse-tung...
...Schlemmer offers "Worldtemp" cuff links that register centigrade temperatures on one link and Fahrenheit on the other. Honeywell's $39.95 fishing thermometer comes with 60 ft. of line and a gauge showing which fish bite best at various water temperatures. For $99.50, Abercrombie & Fitch will gift-wrap an instrument that simultaneously tells temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, time of day and day of the week. And for the man who has every thing, and ran hard to get it, there is an executive foot massager, available at Manhattan's B. Altman...
...reinstated by the slaying of the female sinner by the nearest blood relative, without even inquiring as to the identity of the male lover. To make the "washing out of shame"-as this kind of murder is called -more effective, it is carried out by a hand-wielded instrument such as a dagger, which is then handed to the police, dripping with blood. Maria's fate should have been sealed by her father with a meat-carving knife in the dining room, where he first heard of the soiling of his honor...
Finally, Sihanouk made his gravest move of all, and this time he didn't just threaten. Drawing himself up to his full 5 ft. 4 in., Snookie solemnly severed Cambodia's relations with that well-known instrument of imperialism-the Boy Scouts World Bureau...