Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Erhard appealed to the six-nation European Coal and Steel Community at Luxembourg to withhold approval of the Ruhr coal-price hike. To back up the appeal, Erhard wheeled up his biggest price-defense weapon-his power to let more competing imports into the country. As a starter, he ordered his ministry to prepare schemes to slash rail freights on foreign oil and U.S. coal. At week's end the coalmen were still holding their prices up, and Erhard was stubbornly getting ready to fire the gun of low-priced imports that always in the past...
Something Fishy. In Seattle, Zoo Veterinarian Dr. Kenneth Birkley went off to capture elusive, "very nervous" sea otters with a special weapon: tranquilizing pills...
...boasts of nuclear strength now fall flat on European ears. Russia's disclosure of her possession of a 5000 mile intercontinental missile, unanswered by a similar announcement from the U.S., has led some to believe that the American giant may have clay feet. Subsequent U.S. announcements of various weapon advancements have only corroborated European fears that America is trying desperately, and perhaps vainly, to close the technological gap created by the Soviet missile breakthrough...
Bunt & Brag. Held down by such deadly pitching, softball games (except when some industrial giant takes on a church-league team) are low-scoring affairs. The bunt is a favorite offensive weapon. Fast-handed fielders are always ready to charge the plate; the first and third basemen often find themselves playing just a few yards from the batter. Then the second baseman covers first, the shortstop covers third and the centerfielder takes over at second. The hit-and-run is rare, since base runners are permitted no lead...
...Finland's Alvar Aalto (TIME, April 30, 1956). Using the new buildings as the site for a summer-long architectural fair, West Berliners had already attracted 725,000 visitors, including one group of 33 Polish architects, proved that in the struggle for Berlin good architecture is a good weapon...