Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.--President Carter told a steelworkers convention yesterday that he will soon announce "a strengthening of our limited arsenal of weapons against inflation...
Today the patchwork is in shreds. At every level its members are beset by serious, interrelated troubles, and some leaders fear the great game is in danger of being lost. Iran, for all its pretensions to being a modern arsenal, is torn by internal dissent. Insofar as the nation is able to look outward, it is the only regional CENTO power that regards the Soviet Union as its principal enemy...
...major bill last week -only the fifth time he has exercised this power since he became President 19 months ago. He also warned that there might be more vetoes to follow; and there were ample indications that he planned to use all the other political weapons in the presidential arsenal to make Congress do his bidding. A tougher, more aggressive President was clearly emerging; his subordinates were threatening rebellious members of Congress with a loss of patronage and a withdrawal of crucial assistance in their re-election campaigns. "There is a misreading up on Capitol Hill," said a senior White...
...Tomahawk is billed by the Defense Department as potentially one of the most important weapons in the U.S. arsenal. One version is designed to be launched from a submarine, fly as far as 2,000 miles and deliver its nuclear warhead within a few yards of its target. Another version, intended to sink enemy ships, carries a conventional warhead and has a range of more than 240 miles. Last week, at the Pentagon's invitation, about 40 reporters and photographers joined Defense Secretary Harold Brown on San Clemente Island to watch the submarine U.S.S. Guitarro launch an antiship Tomahawk...
...doing such heavy work in a forest of intellectual history, Wills keeps a lively eye. Washington and Jefferson were both taller than 6 ft., "but Washington inhabited his height, seemed tall to those who thought Jefferson rather collapsible, all wrists and elbow." Sam Adams possessed "a curiously modern arsenal of weapons-street theater, surgical rioting, leaked documents, staged trials, managed news...