Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the opposition of out-of-office politicians, who denounced it as the wicked instrument of foreign powers (a British economist and a U.S. irrigation specialist sit on the board), Nuri es-Said has nursed the program through its first four years with a minimum of political graft. Today Iraq, a land of 80% illiteracy, $84-per-capita income and endemic trachoma, bilharziasis and malaria, stands on the threshold of economic expansion. It took courage to concentrate on long-term investments when demagogues demanded relief here and now. but the first fruits of Iraq's wisdom are beginning...
...year, the candidate of a labor-controlled Demo cratic Party will be elected President. His Democratic successor in 1964: Labor Chieftain Walter Reuther. As for Richard Nixon, Jeane Dixon doesn't "know why the Democrats hate him so, because he is riding a terribly high planet ... is an instrument for good [and] will become a very real power in our Government...
...Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. proposed that "God should be openly and audibly invoked at the United Nations in accordance with any one of the religious faiths which are represented here. I do so," he wrote, "in the conviction that we cannot make the United Nations into a successful instrument of God's peace without God's help, and that with His help, we cannot fail...
...progressed through subtly different rhythms. The third movement, again in pensive tempo, gave the soloist another long melody that breathed nostalgically of twilight among ruins, then let it sigh into a noontime atmosphere with a passage in octaves, then into a recitative of murmurous beauty, where Oistrakh's instrument spoke in unevenly repeated notes. The solo cadenza started with simple triads in different keys, then confronted them with each other in a clashing dissonance, then became more brusque, urgent and uneasy until it opened directly into the finale, an energetic Russian dance...
...luxury to the poor. Then a kinsman, the great John Dryden, saw his verses and said: "Cousin Swift . . . nature has never formed you for a Pindaric poet." At 26 he entered holy orders "as [one joins] a regiment." He was tormented by pride and used this as an instrument to torment others. He wrote of himself: "Each line shall stab, shall blast, like daggers and like fire." Early, he knew himself. "My mind," he wrote, "was like a conjured spirit...