Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stevenson called the U.N. "mankind's sole common instrument of politics," and his warning to the Russians was even blunter. "Africa is the Balkans of today," said Stevenson. "Any outside power seeking to manipulate its griefs and searchings and first fumbling efforts to stand alone risks bringing down on Africa and on the world the dread possibility of nuclear destruction." Stevenson then reminded the Russians of a law of history "more profound, more inescapable than the laws dreamed up by Marx and Lenin: war follows when new empires thrust into collapsing ruins of the old. So stay your ambitions...
...Leakey rules out the possibility that the child fell or was struck by a falling branch, for there were no trees or cliffs in the neighborhood at the time. "I think we can take it for granted that the child was hit on the head by a blunt instrument." says Leakey, warming to his story. "It was murder most foul...
...every night in Connecticut, lights go out in the cities and towns, and citizens by tens of thousands proceed zestfully to break the law. The law thus flouted, probably more intensively than ever Prohibition was, undertakes the ineffable task of forbidding anyone to use "any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception.'' The penalty can be rough (a $50 fine and as much as a year in prison). And. of course, there is always a witness to the crime-but as though to make the law completely unenforceable Connecticut forbids spouses from testifying against...
...protectorates. The third member of the federation, Southern Rhodesia, is a self-governing colony and has threatened to quit the federation if Northern Rhodesia ever came under black domination. This would also be illegal. And it is an ineffective threat to black nationalists, who have hated federation as an instrument of white rule ever since it was set up in 1953; they would be delighted to see the federation break...
...more penetrating, his son the more silvery, tone; but when the same passage recurred in the concerto, the two violinists seemed to have swapped tone colors and styles. Said the Daily Telegraph's David Cooper: "The two play not simply as one mind, but as one instrument." The Oistrakhs agreed. Said Igor: "We don't know or feel differences or similarities that others see in our work. When we play together, we are not father and son. We are musicians...