Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marine Division lost 121 men killed in action. But the Marine sweep turned up a cache of rockets, mortar shells, artillery rounds and other weapons that could have killed, by roughest estimate, 2,250 Americans in defensive positions. Whether and under what circumstances the armaments in this small arsenal would have been used, of course, is a question beyond such statistics...
...nightfall, rumor had it that eight carloads of armed fraternity men were about to hit the hall. Negro Graduate Student Harry Edwards, organizer of last year's Olympic boycott, advised the blacks to take defensive countermeasures. In the dark, they smuggled in a small arsenal of rifles, shotguns and knives. Next day Cornell was treated to the Castroite spectacle of armed students, draped with ammo belts, marching defiantly out of their stronghold...
...military received relatively clear missions and the means to accomplish them. It also enjoyed more public respect and fatter appropriations than in any previous generation. It had defeated Germany and Japan, saved West Berlin, held South Korea, helped contain the Russians at the Iron Curtain, constructed an awesome nuclear arsenal, and performed numerous lesser chores successfully...
...traced to the enlistment of the liberal intellectuals into the Cold War struggle. During a period when they should have been formulating alternatives to the Cold War and the moratorium on domestic political controversy which accompanied it, the liberal intellectuals were allowing themselves to be herded into the cultural arsenal of the state. Within those rigid confines, they deplored Soviet repressions and "unofficial" vigilanteism at home, while failing utterly to subject official state policy to critical scrutiny. The limits of the "free" debate which engaged the American intellectual community in the fifties was so narrow as to be meaningless...
Faced with the pressing demand of healing its sick people, the Federal government has responded with a standard tactic. The government has unloaded the federal fiscal arsenal--through programs like Medicare and Medicaid--and hoped that the poor would be able to buy their health, much as hungry people could health, much as hungry people could use government money to buy a loaf of bread. The simplistic analysis, however, ignores the root disease of the medical system. The money can't do any good when the care is not available...