Word: arsenal
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...reactor has been turning out enough fissionable material over the past ten years to build at least one Hiroshima-size bomb annually. Because a bomb can be physically assembled in a matter of weeks if all materials are ready, Israel for all practical purposes could already have a nuclear arsenal of about 13 bombs...
...pocket veto is a minor but useful weapon in the President's arsenal. The U.S. Constitution provides that a bill passed by Congress becomes law ten days after it is sent to the President-unless Congress is adjourned at the end of that period. If such is the case, the President can kill a bill by simply pocketing it-doing nothing. Andrew Johnson was the first to think of using the pocket veto during an intrasession recess. Last week, in a historic decision, the third branch of Government ruled that the pocket veto can be used only when Congress...
...like a curious mixture of two radio programs from the 1940s: Gang Busters and Fibber McGee and Molly. In the best Gang Busters fashion, he told cheering Congressmen that he considered inflation "public enemy No. 1" and pledged a resolute fight against it. Yet what he disclosed of his arsenal of weaponry for the battle seemed a Fibber McGee closet crowded with familiar ideas that have been tried, or at least noisily advocated, before...
...those who remember India's gentle spirit Mahatma Gandhi, who tried to teach his countrymen the virtues of pacifism, the idea that his nation might one day become a nuclear power with a deadly arsenal of warheads seems all but unthinkable. In 1968 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi-daughter of Gandhi's great friend and political successor, Jawaharlal Nehru-warned Indians that nothing would help their enemies more "than for us to lose our sense of perspective and to undertake measures that undermine the basic progress of the country." Yet India has just exploded an atomic device-somewhat smaller...
...bullets were exploding. Later, when the flames had died down and the little house had collapsed into 4 ft. of debris, police found three more bodies clustered in what had once been the bathroom. All were wearing tear-gas masks, and in the ruins, police found a formidable arsenal that included six sawed-off shotguns, one automatic rifle and two submachine guns. As the five bodies were removed in brown rubber bags, one of the witnesses who stood by, staring at the smoking rubble, was Steven Weed, whom Patty Hearst had renounced as her fiance. He would only say that...