Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TAXES. House liberals balked at extending the 10% income tax surcharge, the most potent weapon available against inflation (see BUSINESS). In return for their support, they demanded a more thoroughgoing tax-reform package, including the oil-depletion allowances that have become a symbol of tax privilege. Only a last-minute personal intercession by Nixon saved the bill...
...years after the Six-Day War, the fedayeen remain the Arabs' main weapon. The cost has been high: by Israeli body count, the fedayeen have suffered 450 dead on Israeli-held territory and an estimated 550 more in clashes across or on the other side of the border; they have also lost 2,000 captured. But at the same time, the guerrillas have forced Israel to maintain its military force at full strength. Ironically, in the course of their war, the fedayeen have also set themselves on a possible collision course with some of the Arab governments who sponsor...
...Jones has remained modest and unassuming. "I think he has handled all the attention like a real big leaguer," says Mets Manager Gil Hodges. But there is one thing that goes to Jones' head: the barrage of pitches from National League hurlers, who are employing the traditional retaliatory weapon against a hot hitter. Cleon is not intimidated. He sprawls in the dirt, dusts himself off, clutches his bat and plants his feet solidly again-while delirious Met fans dream their impossible dreams...
...little in New Hampshire but by a lot in the Democratic convention. Still, it was wonderful to feel that you could get things done. And in May there was Columbia. Earlier, we sat in against a Dow Chemical Company recruiter, because Dow made napalm, which was a horrible weapon for any self-respecting and polite country to be using in the particular wars it was fighting...
...That the government has not used the weapon of on-campus funding to stifle the University's right of dissent...