Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian Democrats, whose stand on church v. state has become a hot political issue since the trial of the Bishop of Prato (TIME, March 10). Malagodi points out that the Liberals are Catholics themselves, but "believe that religion is menaced only by those who would make it an instrument of political tyranny...
...Panditji, you are leaving us orphans!" cried a Congress Party leader last week when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru announced that he wanted to step down for a while as Prime Minister. Nehru had come to the conclusion that something was terribly wrong with his chosen instrument, the Congress Party, and that many of his aides, through self-seeking, corruption, scandals, jobbery and squabbling, had turned it into a flabby, directionless movement that is unable to win the support of the young or to counteract the wave of cynicism spreading throughout India...
According to a Naval spokesman, the satellite contained an instrument designed to measure the sun's output of X-rays and broadcast its findings to earth. This research would aid in discovering the cause of sun-spot interference on radio waves...
...Robert R. Young's dream of railroad empire, the instrument of accession was Alleghany Corp., the holding company that owned large blocks of major roads: Missouri Pacific, Nickel Plate, his own New York Central. Before his suicide in January, Young sold most of his own stock in the Central, but as chairman of Alleghany Corp. he held options on 100,000 shares of Alleghany common which he had yet to exercise; he had been fighting to reorganize Alleghany for three years. Only two days after Young's death, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Young...
Great Ideas of Western Mann (Herbie Mann's Californians; Riverside). Flutist Mann abandons his favorite instrument for one of the least likely of solo instruments-the bass clarinet. The fudge-thick sound has a wistful, funky charm, but often Soloist Mann evokes a fat man in a conga line...