Word: equips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dual Purpose." One after another, NATO's European members insisted that their economies could not stand any stronger drain on their resources. The answer, they argued, was to provide more firepower with fewer men. How? Equip all NATO divisions with tactical atomic weapons. Since Britain's atomic production is too limited to supply even its own divisions adequately, this came down to a demand on the U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson pointed out that U.S. law bans the sale of U.S. atomic weapons, but he agreed that the U.S. would supply and train Europeans...
...hove in sight, ordered her to heave to. Said the French commander, peeping under the hatches: "A floating arsenal." When the old vessel's contraband cargo was laid out on the quay at Mers-el-Kebir, the French army found sufficient mortars, machine guns, rifles and pistols to equip 3,000 guerrillas...
...himself . . . Enslavement could be imposed upon the vanquished as a condition of peace, or through the threat of hydrogen bombing. Biocontrol could make this enslavement complete and final, for the controlled subjects would never be permitted to think as individuals. A few months after birth, a surgeon would equip each child with a socket mounted under the scalp and electrodes reaching selected areas of brain tissue. A year or two later, a miniature radio receiver and antenna would be plugged into the socket. From that time on, the child's sensory perceptions and muscular activity could be either modified...
...Secretary of State John Foster Dulles faced a roomful of uneasy men with varying ideas but a common interest. Their interest was to find, through diplomacy rather than war, the way to remove the Suez from the sole control of Egypt's Nasser. The immediate objective was to equip that common interest with a workable bargaining instrument fashioned from the Anglo-American plan for a canal users' association...
...minutes' flying time from Tel Aviv, has bought some 200 MIG-15 jet fighters and 40 to 50 Ilyushin jet bombers from the Soviet Union. Even with her new Canadian-built Sabres and French Mysteres, Israel will still be numerically outclassed by the Egyptian Air Force, hopes to equip a third squadron with 24 additional top-flight jet interceptors wherever she can buy them...