Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy reported that tests of its inexpensive, infrared, air-to-air Sidewinder missile showed the weapon so accurate that it could shoot a flare-pot off a target-plane wing at a 7½-mile range...
Congratulations on your color spread of the mighty Atlas fizzle at three miles. The Russians also had a scoop at the same time − which beat us by 557 miles. When will the U.S. awaken - or will high-level bickering and indifference, strikes at atomic weapon plants, and official stupidity prevail...
Politicians are acting like old grads when the eleven loses two games in a row. By all means shoot Eisenhower, Engine Charlie, the Chiefs of Staff, the scientists, even Harry Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt. We can still deliver the ultimate weapon, too, by a missile of shorter range from a plane, from a submarine, or just in an old-fashioned suitcase smuggled across a border...
Aside from dropping, for the moment at least, the sword of righteousness, the United States must increase its economic aid program in the Middle East. Economic stability is still the surest weapon against Communism. Syria and its neighbors are still vulnerable to Marxist doctrine, and only financial security can prevent its spread...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24--The United States is hurling aloft a virtual fusillade of mighty missiles and rockets, ranging from a record-shattering shoot into outer space to spectacular destruction by a robot weapon of a target plane a hundred miles away and 60,000 feet high...