Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Michigan Democrat Neil Staebler, a longtime backstage strategist, for weeks scoffed at the demands of Republican Alvin Bentley, a millionaire former Congressman, for a Cuba blockade. Cried he: "Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of history should know that a blockade is an instrument of war. Is Bentley proposing that we sink Soviet freighters?" Bentley was indeed, and now he is making the most of his I-told-you-so chances. Florida Republican Edward J. Gurney, a war hero and former mayor of Winter Park claims that Kennedy's decision to blockade "was forced upon him by the leaders...
...difficult because the blood's viscosity is not uniform in any one patient at any one moment : it probably hits momentary peaks in the coronary arteries, where it cannot be measured directly. As a guide to viscosity, Drs. Burch and DePasquale took readings with a hematocrit - an instrument that measures the concentration of red cells in a centrifuged blood sample. The normal range is 40% to 50%. Most of their heart-disease patients had readings of up to 56%. Patient after patient obtained relief from repeated angina attacks, which cause fierce pain in the chest and left arm, along...
...electric system did not deliver the necessary juice. After 8 hr. 44 min. of flight, Ranger V went dead. Though it may pass close to its target, it will be able to make no observations. Ten more Rangers are scheduled for the vital duty of exploring the moon by instrument before men try to land there...
...Another instrument carried by Mariner II counts micrometeorites. According to its latest reports, these tiny particles of cosmic dust are surprisingly scarce in interplanetary space, about one-thousandth as numerous as near the earth. Apparently the earth somehow concentrates them; they may be falling toward it or revolving around it like microscopic satellites...
...Rock. Probably no artists ever followed so severe a technique as the Chinese, and no instrument of art has ever been devised as sensitive as the Chinese brush. In calligraphy, no matter how many kinds of strokes convention demanded, each had to be perfect. According to one convention, "a dot should resemble a rock falling from a high cliff. A horizontal stroke should resemble a formation of cloud stretching 1,000 miles. A vertical stroke should resemble a dried vine stem a myriad years old." It is one of the virtues of the collection that there is such an emphasis...