Word: instrumentalized
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...speak as a "son of the German people," Benedict seemed to downplay any ordinary-German implication in the Holocaust. Instead, he placed blame on a "ring of criminals [who] rose to power by false promises ... through terror ... with the result that our people was used and abused as an instrument of their thirst for destruction and power...
...telescopes are expected to peer deeper into space and time than any telescope has done before. Their launch comes three days after NASA's space shuttle launch to repair the Hubble telescope, which, since its launch in 1990, has been regarded as the most important instrument in the study of the cosmos. However, the ESA says that Herschel and Planck will explore the science of space in a way that Hubble never could...
...final target, and summarily disposed of the complicated moral question of German society's "collective responsibility" by blaming the systematic extermination of millions of Jews and other innocents on the deeds of a "ring of criminals." The Bavarian native concluded: "Our people was used and abused as an instrument of [the Nazis] thirst for destruction and power." (Read a story about the Pope's prayer at Auschwitz...
...such as Classical. “Classical symphonies in class and Irish reels in pubs are much more related than I thought,” he says. Gurney is a professional accordion player, with several national awards and a busking license to his name, but he first met the instrument in a toy store. “I was seven,” he says. “I tried on a toy accordion and just kept playing it until it broke. I’ve since moved on to bigger and bigger accordions.” His childhood also...
...more vocally and contrapuntally about the music I write,” Schachter says of his foray into vocal music. Schachter also plays bass with Kuumba, whose “raw energy and feeling have impacted [his] style of writing.” Schachter even picked up yet another instrument, the didgeridoo, when Kuumba went on tour performing aboriginal music in Australia. For his senior thesis, Schachter wanted to combine the free, improvisational character of jazz music with the elements of the classical compositional form he had honed during his undergraduate studies at Harvard. The product...