Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with him an 85-vehicle convoy loaded with his possessions, including polo ponies, and necklaces from the temple gods. He also took along most of his own army, while unabashedly appealing to Nehru to come to the aid of the Kashmiri people. In return he offered to sign an instrument of accession by which Jammu and Kashmir became part of India. Nehru, who nourishes a sentimental attachment for Kashmir because his forbears come from there, called it a deal, sent in the Indian army, which fought the invaders for 15 months until the U.N. arranged a cease fire. Ever since...
...little-known reformer who proposed, in effect, a continuing revolution in Cuba, without Castro or Communism. There was a feeling that disillusionment with Castro had come a little late for Ray and many of his followers. The CIA decided to stick with Varona and his Frente as the instrument to overthrow Castro, and assigned an agent named Frank Bender to the task...
...theory, it should be easy to use this principle to get medically valuable information about the strength of the heart's thrust and about its subtle subbeats, thus disclosing how healthy the heart is. Inventive minds have been trying for more than half a century to devise an instrument that would yield reliable data. In New York City last week, Astro-Space Laboratories, Inc. demonstrated the latest ballistocardiograph,* which was developed with the aid of missilemen...
...Astro-Spacemen decided that the patient could be floated much more delicately than that. In the first place, the weight of the board must be figured with the patient's, so the less that has to be added the better. The instrument makers hit upon an oversized bedboard made of an aluminum honeycomb, which weighs only 7 Ibs. To float patient and bedboard, they chose an air bearing of a type originally designed for instruments in missiles...
Coronary Warning? The basic model measures head-to-foot and foot-to-head thrusts. A second recording instrument can be added for the sideways thrusts of the blood stream. The recorder has a spare channel, so that if the patient has electrocardiograph leads hooked up the physician can read the ballistocardiogram along with an electrocardiogram...