Word: instrumentalized
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...think it takes people a little while to realize that it’s a serious study because we use an unusual instrument to determine the cost of war,” he said...
...state of Israel is established! The meeting is ended." At midnight, British rule over Palestine lapsed; 11 minutes later White House spokesman Charlie Ross announced U.S. recognition. "God put you in your mother's womb," the Chief Rabbi of Israel later told Truman, "so you would be the instrument to bring the rebirth of Israel." With Truman's decision, the hopes of the Jewish people were realized, but so too were Marshall's fears. Arab opponents of the new nation immediately declared war, prompting a bloody struggle over Israel's existence that would rage into the next century. --By Romesh...
...killed a significant number of the Republican Guard. We're trying to break their will and get them to go home." Defense officials predicted last week that up to a quarter of the Republican Guard troops would surrender if the details were worked out. "They're using the psychological instrument to collapse [the enemy's] will through intimidation and the creation in his mind of inevitable defeat," says Robert Scales, a retired Army major general. U.S. military officials are convinced that if Saddam manages to retain command and control of his forces, he will try to unleash chemical and biological...
...beautiful and painful, yet his singing bears no sign of the overwrought pretentiousness that often befalls melancholia in less skillful hands. And even though Acher’s vocals lack much dynamic or emotive range, their soothing tone actually makes for the album’s most effective, mesmerizing instrument...
Twelve years ago, my entrance into the world of music seemed innocent enough. Mr. Erickson, the Willy Wonka-esque town music teacher, came to my elementary school to present the myriad of possible musical instruments to play to an audience of rapt third graders. “Play an instrument because you like the way it sounds, not because your grandma has a violin in the attic,” he told us, and, since already I loved the wolf’s theme in Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf...