Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems to me that the press is as much an instrument in fomenting and preserving a state of hatred and distrust between this country's people and those of Russia (particularly her leaders) as any actual misdeeds by Russia may have been. You bring out Khrushchev's faults and choose to minimize or ignore the possibility of his sincerity. I am proud, and not afraid, to admire Mr. Khrushchev for what may well be genuine overtures in the direction of peace. I shall trust him. I shall not condemn him and slap him when he puts forth...
...Cessna 120, N. De J. Portocarrero '61 taxied on to the runway and pulled back the throttle. Seconds later, the two-seater left Bedford Airport, making a wide turn toward Cambridge. As the plane droned over route 128 and the lakes and farms of Lexington, Portocarrero explained the instrument panel: airspeed--100 m.p.m., direction--south-east, altitude--1500 feet...
...Communists spent well over $100 million this past summer in their global attempt to create, and win, a new social class of "Youth." The World Youth Festival did not succeed in this, however, for as a propaganda instrument it was blunted by the independent efforts of Western student groups, and in particular by American participants working within the Festival. But the Soviet did not fail with all of the 20,000 "youth" who arrived in Vienna for 10 days of rallies, cultural events, slogans, and seminars...
...found McCuistion severely bruised in five places on his chest, shoulders and back. Asked by the judge if the bruises could have been caused resisting arrest, Moss replied: "It is unlikely that all were sustained resisting arrest. Some seem to have come from severe kicks or an instrument...
...Hospital was typical of the best in U.S. medicine. Carefully scrubbed surgeons and nurses in sterile caps, masks, gowns and gloves glided around the table with smooth efficiency. The senior scrub nurse knew the senior surgeon's methods so well that he rarely had to ask for an instrument. A laconic New Englander, he uttered hardly a word. One thing that set this operation apart: in the theater, also sterile-garbed, was Microbiologist Ruth B. Kundsin, who took air samples every few minutes to test for harmful bacteria floating over the patient's widely opened abdomen. For more...