Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...donned his curved dagger of command, and with his brother Talib took to the warpath again. With 200 modern rifles and up-to-date automatic weapons, mountaineers swiftly took their old capital of Nizwa. The British were quickly convinced that the modern equipment came from King Saud's arsenal, even though that Saudi Arabian potentate, as if indifferent to the whole affair, was off in Ethiopia calling on Haile Selassie. They also feared that the U.S. would naturally side with Saudi Arabia, whose oil concessions are wholly American-but the fact is that U.S. oil money dominates even...
...head of a band of ragged Nepalese army irregulars, nervous Indian army "observers" stationed in Nepal clapped him into jail. He escaped the Indians, but was picked up again. One night in 1952 Singh broke jail and led a coup that captured the capital's airfield, treasury and arsenal. The then King of the day, fearful of the Indians, would not let Singh form a government. With 32 followers (five of whom died en route), Singh groped his way through blinding snowstorms into Tibet, then headed for Peking...
...combat soldier (Silver Star, Bronze Star) and postwar missile .specialist, was risking 46 years' imprisonment as he faced Army court-martial charges ranging in effect from laxity through perjury to espionage. The plot line was that Nickerson, field coordinator of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., had been caught sending secret documents on the missile program to unauthorized businessmen, newsmen and Congressmen. The motivation: Nickerson was making a hero's fight on behalf of the Army missile program ("I was trying anonymously to influence certain key people") against the Air Force's assigned task...
...Partisan. Last week, before an Army court-martial at Redstone Arsenal, with the house packed with newsmen, the curtain went up on The Case of Colonel Nickerson. It was soon obvious from the first act, and to no one's surprise, that the great drama had turned into something akin to a forum for Colonel Nickerson. First off, Nickerson pleaded guilty in effect to charges of laxity, whereupon the Army dropped the tough specifications about espionage and perjury (and thus reduced the sentence). Then, Nickerson's civilian counsel Ray H. Jenkins (of Army-McCarthy fame) produced...
...ranging from the 17th century British inquiry involving Popish Plotmonger Titus Oates* ("the infamous rogue") through the historic lawgiving of Sir Edward Coke, James I's Lord Chief Justice, to the U.S. Senate investigation in 1859 of John Brown's seizure of the Harper's Ferry arsenal...