Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that brought him into contempt was in itself a criminal offense, e.g., assault in violation of an injunction. But the Clayton Act explicitly made an exception for federal injunction cases, i.e., Congress recognized that the Federal Government needed the injunction, enforced without any jury-trial limitation, as an indispensable tool of justice...
Task Force. By Nazi standards, the Duke of Windsor might prove a useful tool. (Wasn't the royal family of German descent anyway?) The Germans saw Windsor as a king forced off his throne and sent into exile for love of a woman; and the thought must still rankle. Forced to flee from his French home, unwelcome in England, probably humiliated by the offer of the governorship of one of his younger brother's most insignificant West Indies colonies, the Duke of Windsor seemed a natural for the German cause. Hitler's Ribbentrop spared no effort...
...Farben was the largest corporation in Germany and the largest chemical corporation in the world. This organization planned and schemed as a tool of the Nazi regime. The Allied Control Council has agreed that the economic power of cartels, syndicates, trusts and combines will be eliminated. We are committed and determined to seek out and destroy the sources of Germany's once powerful aggressive industrial might...
They are the ghosts of six concepts, argues Berle-Capitalism, Communism, Nationalism, Imperialism, Race Superiority, Spiritual Supremacy. Capitalism, Berle has decided, "is not a philosophy for which to fight and die. It is a tool, and a great tool, to be used or laid aside as the genius of any people directs." Communism is "a means of dividing and enslaving thought and will. It should go back to its historical cemetery." As for Nationalism, the twentieth century subtracted from it the ability "to maintain national life." As he flicks the shrouds of his chosen ghosts. Author Berle agrees with Barbara...
...left Cressida with a guilty conscience and she feels unworthy of Troilus, until he proves his love in bed. Love's victory is Pyrrhic, however, and Cressida soon succumbs to a Prince of Greece, who can provide security and a house in Connecticut. The Greek is nevertheless the tool of Mars, who is the real villain, and provides the climax, which is tragic for Ashton and perhaps slightly comic for the audience...