Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than ever opposed to the doctrines of hate and violence-in our own land and around the world. We are more than ever committed to the rule of law -in our own land and around the world. And more than ever we support the United Nations, as the best instrument yet devised to promote the peace of the world and the well-being of mankind." The U.S., concluded Johnson, "wants sanity, security and peace for all, and above...
...Bootstraps. Designed to hurl more than a ton of instrument payloads all the way to the moon, the 28½-ft. Centaur generates 30,000 Ibs. of thrust with its two restartable Pratt & Whitney engines. The hydrogen fuel they burn has been the key-and the curse-of the Centaur system from the time it was born on engineers' drawing boards. As early as 1909, U.S. Rocket Pioneer Robert Goddard noted that hydrogen (in liquid form, known as LH.,) might prove to be the optimum chemical rocket fuel. Its light molecular weight, less than half that of standard liquid...
ASSASSINATION has never been an instrument of politics in the U.S.: no plot to seize power, no palace intrigue, has ever cost an American President his life. The three assassins whose bullets killed Presidents Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley were lonely psychopaths, adrift from reason in a morbid fascination with the place history gives those who reverse its orderly progress. Each sought an hour of mad glory-and each died convinced that history would understand...
...like sooty icing, with only flecks of lavender and blue to serve a lighter side. It is also a darkling mirror of Still's personality. As he says, "Painting must be an extension of the man, of his blood, a confrontation with himself. Only thus can a valid instrument of individual freedom be created...
...first accomplishment of the music program was teaching all the campers to read music. Bayne and Goldberg did by use of plastic flutophones. After the campers mastered that instrument, they went on to trumpets, drums, cornets, and the piano. By the end of the summer they were good enough to present the score of "South Pacific" to an appreciative audience of 100 parents...