Word: weapon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Japanese viewpoint, and Admiral Yamamoto had tightly closed his eyes and ears to any other, what could be fairer? Japan knows that the decisive weapon of the West against her would be the aircraft carrier, that her best defense against it would be the submarine. She too, would need aircraft carriers to fight the West and in renouncing them would be making a gesture of peace. Finally who says that Japan is not a Great Power worthy of "equality...
...following "facts": Alexander's assassin, hacked to pieces by police sabres and bullets, was a fat young man named Petrus Kalemen, later said to be Vlada Georgieff. On his arm was tattooed the motto and device of a Mace donian secret society known as IMRO. The weapon with which the murders were committed was a huge ungainly Mauser automatic pistol of the latest type which sprays 20 shots like a machine gun. In his pockets Kalemen also carried a Walther pistol, a hand grenade, and 150 loose cartridges. He did not need them. With the Mauser he was able...
...right, from the Fascist point of view, because his blackshirt youth organizations are machine-tailoring more soldiers than the Army conscript system. The Army numbers 250,000, but the Fascist Volunteer Militia, armed, drilled and equipped with every modern weapon, has reached nearly 400,000, with more youths constantly pushing up from the Avanguardisti which is fed in turn by the Fascist-drilled moppets who grow up constantly out of the Balilla...
Police who swarmed over Northfield's campus last week had no trouble reconstructing the murder-someone lurked on a macadam path outside the study until Headmaster Speer stood up, then fired a shotgun pointblank through the window. But of weapon, killer or motive they could find no trace...
...that means a fight to the end for all she holds dear. But when she is on a two-week cruise, her innocent husband, Charles, who never ceases to admire Nicholas, succumbs to a wholly insignificant affair with a flower girl. Nicholas learns of this aberration, wields his new weapon with devastating effect...