Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...National Science Foundation grant to the department will pay for the instrument, used in measurements for small molecules, Ciappennelli added...
...before he was brought in for a year as a reform superintendent in 1967: "Discipline was routinely enforced by flogging, beating with clubs, inserting of needles under fingernails, crushing of testicles with pliers, and the last word in torture devices: the 'Tucker telephone,' an instrument used to send an electric current through genitals." In Jail: The Ultimate Ghetto, Ronald Goldfarb records so many atrocities of prison life that the reader is scarcely surprised to learn that in the District of Columbia jail a young white antiwar protester of the 1960s was raped dozens of times by blacks...
...even gave it his two violins ("not great ones like Isaac Stern's, but good ones"). It was a fitting gesture. Ormandy is a virtuoso, all right; but his father's hopes notwithstanding, it is the orchestra that has turned out to be his true instrument...
...tools, and his wife as bookkeeper, Robert Ozuna in 1967 founded an electrical contracting firm in his garage. Today his New Bedford Panoramex Corp. of Santa Fe Springs, Calif., occupies an 18,000-sq.-ft. building, employs 41 people and expects 1980 sales of $3.5 million. Ozuna assembles the instrument panels that monitor nuclear plants, oil drilling rigs and other high-technology hardware. Firms working the Alaskan oil pipeline use his products. With their dazzling displays of dials and switches, the panels look like something out of the control room in The China Syndrome...
...alliance. The Kremlin warned West Europeans not to bow to U.S. pressure in such matters as modernizing NATO's tactical nuclear arsenal and boycotting this summer's Moscow Olympic Games. In Paris, Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko stated that unless the allies resist, they would be turned into "an instrument for America's global policy" and would allow the U.S. to "attain strategic objectives on the backs of others." When Bonn indicated that it would probably follow the U.S. lead and boycott the Olympics, the Soviet Ambassador to West Germany warned that such a decision would have "political consequences...