Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must make the fullest possible use of the U.N. and work hard to improve it. And while the U.N. was never designed to be a substitute for a clear and resolute U.S. foreign policy, we must take all reasonable steps to help the U.N. become a more effective instrument for peace among nations...
...critics call it inbred, conservative, Southern-dominated. This reputation stems from such instances as the time (1910) when the A.B.A. president decried the "dangerous" doctrine of interpreting the Constitution as "an elastic instrument." Nearly half a century later, A.B.A. orations on the same theme reportedly drove Chief Justice Warren to resign in 1959. In the early 1950s, the A.B.A. approved resolutions opposing social security for lawyers and supporting a 25% ceiling on income taxes. It still has only a handful of Negro members. In 1960 it elected as president a Mississippian-John C. Satterfield-who later advised Governor Ross Barnett...
...Monitor. Somehow, radioactive mud seemed to be getting into instrument boxes. But how? Insect Ecologist Alvin Fleetwood Shinn was called in to investigate. Dressed in white coveralls, rubber boots and gloves, and carrying a radiation survey meter, he prowled the forbidden woods and soon identified the culprits. Hidden among the monitor instruments, sometimes even plastered on vacuum tubes, were dozens of mud nests built by wasps...
Priorities of Fear. Roche has no patience with liberal apologists for totalitarians of the left like Castro: "I have never known a man who treated a gun as a symbol-instead of an instrument-who was not fundamentally depraved. When such an addict of romantic violence appears in politics mouthing left-wing slogans, are we to deny the insights of experience for the nostalgia of a phrase?" Roche also advises liberals to stop worrying and writing so much about the radical right. Right-wing extremists like the late Joseph F. McCarthy and Robert Welch must be fought but kept...
...television network, U Thant told an estimated 40 million viewers that the U.N. is "facing a very serious financial crisis." What's more, he added, "I am convinced that the people of the Soviet Union and their leaders want the United Nations to develop into a really effective instrument for the maintenance of peace. To achieve this noble objective, it is up to all of us to try to find a solution to get the United Nations out of the crisis facing it today...