Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forces of freedom." So declared Secretary of State John Foster Dulles this week, as he proposed a major next step in Western foreign policy: the transformation of the 15-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization from a defense pact into a pregnant next "phase" that could conceivably make it an instrument for the integration of the Western world...
...Khrushchev's principal and most expert job was reconstructing the Ukrainian Communist Party. The old leaders, including his predecessor Stanislav Kossior, were executed, and the membership recast. The new party was a tight, tough instrument of Stalinist policy...
Italian automakers in Turin were readying a fabulous jalopy for delivery to the Shah of Iran. Of a "California gold" color, the car is topped off with shatterproof glass, has solid 24-carat gold instrument casings, a refrigerator, bar, telephone and record player. Estimated cost...
Thus prattled Paris' Francois Baschet, 36, an enterprising fellow who has been spending his nights inventing instruments to give the listener something new: "A cello with an echo, an instrument that sounds like the human voice, a piano that weeps-an infernal clavier. If I make 21st century instruments for the 20th century, tant...
...apartment last week, Inventor Baschet proudly displayed the result of his nightwork: a monstrous collection of iron plates, steely spirals, glass rods in spiky rows, pneumatic cushions of red-and-white plastic, wires, bolts and screws, hammers, dampers. One instrument looked like a pair of inflated pontoons tangled in elephant grass and topped by the huge backbone of a fish. He tapped, squeezed, rubbed, twanged, and out of the contraptions came an amazing series of sounds-some of them hootingly sepulchral, some barkingly savage, some bewitching in the echoing tintinnabulations they set in motion. "Here you see the future...