Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arms for Europe, he explained, was a logical extension of ECA and the Atlantic pact, the final peg in a policy. But arms assistance was not directly "a product of the pact-an instrument which is not yet in effect." On the contrary, said Acheson, "even without the existence of the North Atlantic pact, the need for assistance and the recommended response of this Government would be the same." So, he concluded emphatically: "These requests and our replies therefore in no sense represent a price tag to be placed upon the pact...
...Communists had often used a people's nationalist feelings as an instrument of their own power drives; they are now doing so in Asia. But Tito and his followers are driven by a genuine nationalism as strong as Russia's own. World communism had been rent by differences and ideological conflicts before; most were over tactics. Titoism stabs at the very heart of Communist power and doctrine...
Snort from Segovia. The lute wasn't easy to learn. Plenty of music has been written for the lute (more, Suzanne believes, than for the harpsichord), but she found it written in a complicated notation called "tablature." The instrument itself was a little complicated too. Famed Guitarist Andrés Segovia visited Suzanne last year, took one look at her lute and snorted, "Too many strings" (her lute has 19, Segovia's guitar only...
...would do below Mach 1 (the speed of sound). He had flown it many times, working it up gradually toward the critical speed. The rocket plane handled beautifully, both when flying under rocket power and when gliding down so quietly that Chuck could hear the clock ticking on the instrument panel. After each landing, Captain Jackie L. Ridley, Muroc flight test engineer, analyzed the records of the X-1's instruments. On the whole, they were encouraging. But no one was sure what would happen at the critical speed. The sonic wall was still unpierced; the big test still...
...tricks of the traitors become indistinguishable from tricks of the trade. Playwright Wouk does little to plumb the presumably complex mind of his young scientist. After giving every indication that Carr is to be the center of a serious drama, the author makes him little more than an instrument of the plot...