Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Cambridge's luxury remained, her military reputation died a very natural death. One cause of the reputation was the big arsenal that had been established beyond the Common--in fact, somewhere near the site of the Radeliffe dormitories At first the Arsenal was taken very seriously, but when it became evident that the British weren't coming back to Greater Boston, the undergraduates discovered that the old cannonballs might come in useful. They rolled them to their rooms in Stoughton and Hollis, heated them in the fire, and then put them to heat the next room, where there...
...Truman faces one initial obstacle that may well wreck his plans--a legislature dominated by the opposition party. By virtue of this fact he will be barred from using some of the most effective weapons in the Presidential arsenal--patronage, personal friendships with Congressional leaders, and the weight of his position as spokesman for a majority party. Presidential leadership will be effective only if its aims are identical with those of Congress. There is no indication that such is the case. Senator Taft is in favor of the Marshall Plan and aid to Europe, but on a scale far below...
Calling the Marshall Plan "the leading weapon in America, the arsenal of capitalism," Sweezy claimed, "The N. A. M. will never change...
...also got too much advance publicity. Then Trujillo threatened to protest to the U.N., and the U.S. State Department passed the word that it was against the whole scheme. Finally, Cuban Army Boss Genovevo, who had opposed the filibuster from the start, seized much of the expedition's arsenal on Education Minister Alemán's estate near Havana. Grau's hand was forced (TIME, Oct. 6). The Army and Navy went to work, and the invasion...
Every time you blow up a British arsenal, or wreck a British jail, or send a British railroad train skyhigh, or rob a British bank, or let go with your guns and bombs at the British betrayers and invaders of your homeland, the Jews of America make a little holiday in their hearts. Not all the Jews, of course...