Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, the beleaguered Communists tried a desperate show of defiant strength. They ordered their strongest instrument-the Confédération Générate du Travail, whose 1,000,000-plus membership makes it the dominant power of French labor, to pull a nationwide, one-day strike. "Let us unite to stop fascism," they cried, meaning by fascism the resistance of all Hungarians to the Russian tanks. Last week the walkout came. It was a colossal and embarrassing flop. In the Paris area not a single bus, subway or trolley ground to a halt...
...University's two Lowell Television Lecturers praised the value of television as a teaching instrument yesterday, but agreed that it is no replacement for the ordinary give-and-take lecture method...
...version has lost the social point of the old, along with other things. Dick Powell is at the megaphone, rather than Capra, and he uses the instrument less as a director should than as he did when he was a baby-faced crooner-to make things loud and corny. Further, the script has been thumbsily rewritten by Claude Binyon, and many of the sly little scenes have been converted into thwacking big musical numbers, set to some remarkably unmusical music. Both of the big names have been replaced by other big names (June Allyson and Jack Lemmon...
From beleaguered Budapest on Tuesday the news flashed that the Soviet tanks were pulling out. Shouted the jubilant announcer: "For long years past this radio has been an instrument of lies. It lied day and night. It lied on all wave lengths . . . From this moment those who mouthed the lies are no longer . . . We who are now facing the microphone are new men." It was the voice of the people of Hungary in that hour: a great burden had been cast...
...happened, but that they cannot give much detail without disclosing precious information about the X-2's behavior and design. The broad facts, however, are that both pilot and ship performed far too well. Captain Apt had been told not to watch his machmeter, the common speed-measuring instrument. His accelerometer, the key speed instrument in this case, could not be read directly in miles per hour. So, when he reached peak speed, he probably did not know how fast he was going. After his engine cut out, he must have slowed down, but when he started to turn...