Word: disarms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...merely fanned existing discontent beforehand, and his agents were prepared to ride it afterward. As Cairo, Damascus and Moscow radios dinned encouragement of the insurrection, a message crossed the Syrian border, on the person of an eccentric Belgian diplomat, addressed to persons unknown, in Beirut: "Fire at police, disarm agents. Continue shooting all day. Blow up the presidential palace. Kill whenever necessary; throw bombs from roofs and in streets. Burn a few cars during nights: this is indispensable. Take Tripoli as an example and do the same." Agitators need not invent events to profit by them...
Disarmament Talks. "Genuine, enforceable, inspected reduction of arms is an objective on which all Americans are agreed, [but] the illusion of security brought about by a spurious agreement to disarm would be a poor substitute for vigilance based on strength...
...year newspaper veteran whose father and grandfather were peace officers in Arizona territory, Reddick normally has no use for heroics. Why did he disarm the wife slayer? "Well," he explained, "I began to think, hell, when a man fires a gun into your face and it doesn't go off, it's just not your time...
Earp, who used a ruse and one burst of buckshot to disarm all 30 ruffians, symbolizes not only the gunfighting marshals who tamed the wild frontier but a pack of horse operas that thunder in growing numbers down the channels of TV. The three networks like this season's 16 Western series so well that they have already scheduled twelve more for next fall-the biggest visible trend for the new season-and independents are hopefully breaking in 50 other contenders. Among the forthcoming shows: CBS's Have Gun, Will Travel, ABC's The Texan, The Californians...
...Disarm your enemy in peacetime by diplomacy and trade...