Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House. Yet no sooner had MacArthur freshened his image as a contemporary statesman, than he began fading back again into the shadows. This week he visited Little Rock, Ark., where he was born 72 years ago while his father, Arthur MacArthur, was in command of the old Army arsenal. Obviously caught in the sentiment of the occasion, Douglas MacArthur, in fine, old-fashioned prose, deliberately stressed his heaviest political liability: his age. "For me," he said, in what proved to be a thoroughly nonpolitical speech, "the shadows are deepening. I left Little Rock long, long years ago when life...
...defended its necessity. Though his Frenchness needs no proving, he sometimes seems to act as if it does. Possible reason: he lived the first 33 years of his life under the German flag as a Lorrainer, got his education in German universities and worked under compulsion in a German arsenal during World...
...named Habib Bourguiba, 48, had remained dissatisfied. Two weeks ago, as a new French Resident-General arrived to exercise his country's sovereignty in Tunisia, the nationalist patience gave out. "It is not a question," grey-eyed Bourguiba told his people on that calm, sunny day in the arsenal town of Ferryville, "of throwing the French into the sea. But we must let them know that their presence here wounds our pride...
...defensive mission; nothing frightens a submarine commander more than the thought of another sub _ silently stalking him underwater. With its high speed and unlimited endurance, the atomic sub, say Navy submariners, can track down and kill enemy subs more efficiently than any other weapons in the Navy's arsenal...
...news that the U.S. was building an atomic submarine had implications far greater than the single addition of another powerful weapon to the nation's arsenal. It meant that the stocks of rare fissionable material, long in short supply, had reached the point where some could be diverted to uses other than the production of huge bombs. Through chinks in the security wall, the armed forces could be heard talking of smaller atomic bombs for tactical use, and of atomic aircraft carriers. The aircraft industry knows that one company already has a contract for a plane to be powered...