Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seized by the powerful jaws of a crocodile and the boat overturned. While he desperately swam for the shore, the crocodile ripped at his flesh. The doctor refused to believe the man's story, pointed out that his wounds had been clearly caused by some sharp instrument. "To tell the truth," said the injured man, "the crocodile had a knife...
...Micro-Path System promises to be the hottest product marketed by Topp's two founders. President Bernard F. Gira and Executive Vice President Herbert J. Peterson. After working as purchasing agents in the aircraft industry, the two joined forces in 1955 to make electronic instruments for the missile age. They turn out instruments that tell an aircraft's angle of attack, compute its Mach number electronically, time and program the firing of its rocket armament; there is even an instrument to measure the structural-material erosion of missiles at hypersonic speeds. With a second division making radios...
...real necessity is "multilateral control" through "a world government system that has the power and stability necessary for world order." Although the U.N. is not becoming a world government, Cheever maintained, it is "an instrument to resolve world problems...
...unilateral disarmament were effected, Cheever warned, this "one truly universal instrument" would become "a successful tool" of the Soviet Union, the stronger military power...
...political inexperience of his advisors will prove no help to him in making them stick. Already he has found himself obliged to return some of the business of civil administration to the civil service with the announcement that "it is a job for professionals." In short, the self-chosen instrument of reform in Pakistan does not seem...