Word: armament
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...years, there came to Princeton an odd, owl-faced man with a quiet voice and a burning desire to get young people to "change," to "get right with God" in group confession and accept the daily guidance of the divine. Frank Buchman, whose "Oxford Group" later became Moral Re-Armament and mushroomed into the best-financed and most-discussed evangelistic enterprise of the '20s and '30s, helped convince Van Dusen that there was some life in the old church yet. Though he soon outgrew Buchman's group, Pit had made up his mind, and he started...
...genuinely supersonic, i.e., flies above the speed of sound in level flight. It is packed with educated electronics. In combat, the airplane will probably do most of its own thinking, the pilot sitting passively while radars and other gadgets locate their prey, aim and fire the guns or other armament. Then he will return the spent airplane to its base...
...Army divisions from Korea as a first step in the gradual reduction of its ground forces there. The withdrawal, said Eisenhower, was further proof "that we ourselves have no aggressive intentions, and that we are resourceful and vigilant to find ways to reduce the burden of armament and to promote a climate of peace...
...political power: it must be 1) "above party," and 2) "a state within a state." In the early '20s, Seeckt kept the telephone pact with the Socialists, at the same time busied himself with building up the cadres of a new German army and a new armament industry-both in violation of the Versailles peace treaty...
...groups of study under the general heading of design include: armament, equipment, heating and ventilating systems, anti-iceing and defrosting systems, electrical power systems, electronic equipment, controls, and hydraulics...