Word: instrumentalization
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...arrested any day and taken away to a concentration camp," he wrote later. "Sometimes I would ask myself: so many young people of my own age are losing their lives, why not me? Today I know that it was not mere chance." The trust that he was God's instrument, that he was not roughly predestined but specifically preserved to find his place at the turn of the millennium, lay behind his every act. In his evangelization, he was so terribly urgent; in his doctrine, so unbending; for the children, so utterly hopeful. He was unconscious of self...
Playing any acoustic instrument in a large hall is strenuous. Violinists suffer from the unequal development of the right and left side, and a lot of cellists end up with back problems or tendinitis. I do aerobics, weights, all that stuff to insulate against the short nights and cramped airplanes. But sometimes nothing helps...
...free that long. This new Capone offer supported a theory, held by even those closest to Col. Lindbergh, that the proper criminals got Col. Lindbergh's $50,000 and then proceeded to turn the baby over to another gang. This gang could use the child as an instrument for extorting further ransom. Or it might make a favorable impression on the nation's prosecutors by returning the child gratis. It might use the child as a hostage, returnable for the freedom of some potent hoodlum (the Senator Bingham theory...
...thing that really pushes my buttons is when people try to paint every legitimate action as a form of political correctness. I really find that that is a blunt instrument and that is McCarthyite tactics,” she said, provoking applause from many faculty members...
...thing that really pushes my buttons is when people try to paint every legitimate action as a form of political correctness. I really find that that is a blunt instrument and that is McCarthyite tactics,” she said, provoking applause from many faculty members...