Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This law is going to be used as a weapon-and a permanent weapon-against trade unions and their members," he declared, adding that its provisions would in effect nullify "whatever decent living conditions have been obtained up to this time under collective bargaining between employer and employee...
...like a machine, rolling them out in an endless variety based on a few simple propositions. With himself as the continuous passing threat, Furse could hurl to a flanker, flip a Harmon lateral to the wing or tallback, hand off to Nadherny, or--and this is his most devasting weapon--leap in the air after a count of one or two or three and explode the ball over the center of the line...
...believe the atom bomb Is a good weapon," concluded Physicist Sir Charles Darwin (grandson of the original), after some thought. His feeling about it: too inconvenient against scattered troops-and nobody would use the thing anyway, for fear of getting one back...
...freight business, the showdown had come. So far as the independent carriers could make out, the issue was plain: Would the scheduled airlines, which had been slow to wake up to air freight's possibilities, be permitted to drive the independents out of business? The scheduled lines' weapon was a rate war - the 12?-per-ton-mile tariff recently proposed to the Civil Aeronautics Board by American, United and Pennsylvania-Central Airlines. What roweled the independents was their firm conviction that the scheduled lines could do the job only with the help of their Government "subsidies" in carrying...
...avoid it, he prescribes internationalism-a U.N. with Russia counted out: "The veto must be abandoned. ... It is the dictatorship of one nation ruled by one man. That kind of U.N. cannot save democracy. Stalin is not yearning to save democracy. . . . Russia will employ it as a weapon to divide and ultimately crush the democracies. . . . The U.N. is not an international government. It must be remade to become one. It is very likely that the moment the nations begin reshaping the U.N. they will be on the way to an international government without Russia...