Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...immigrants refused to take "morning tea breaks" and volunteered to work in the rain. The Communists circularized dockworkers: "Most immigrant Bails are fascists opposed to unionism." Crime increased with the rising population, and Australians were disturbed by the addition of a new weapon to the Australian criminal's arsenal: the knife. Biggest setback has been the reluctance of Australian girls to marry immigrants...
CHANCE VOUGHT AIRCRAFT, which cut loose from United Aircraft last year, has added another fighter to the U.S. arsenal of supersonic jets, its first as an independent company. The plane, now being tested for the Navy, is the XF8U-1, a snub-nosed, swept-wing single-engined fighter designed to operate off carrier decks, hit a top speed of around 900 m.p.h...
Using a relatively low 26 stroke, Flynn covered the distance in 7:42.2, finishing two lengths ahead of Quick. Three weeks ago, Quick, who rowed last year on the Oxford first crew, established a Thirty Minute Club record of 25:44.3 from Weld Boathouse to the Arsenal Bridge and back...
...within the bounds of the control functions they exercise, would have unhindered access at any time to all objects of control." This kind of pretense at control lends itself to the absurdities of the truce inspection teams in Korea and Indo-China: unless the host nation defines an arsenal as nuclear, the inspectors would have no right to peek there...
...unit: stone-hard Communists whose job it was to make men and officers accept "the spirit of revolutionary discipline," or else. Said Realist Trotsky: "An army cannot be built without reprisals. Masses of men cannot be led to death unless the army command has the death penalty in its arsenal." Thus began the pernicious commissar system which years later was to bring the army, and Soviet Russia itself, almost to destruction...