Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agents, who had infiltrated the garrison disguised as recruits, machine-gunned loyal troops in their bunks, set off secretly placed charges that toppled the fort's three watchtowers. By dawn, 28 government men lay dead, 36 wounded, and the Viet Cong had made off with virtually every weapon on the base. Looking about the ruins, a Vietnamese survivor gestured at pools of coagulating blood, said smilingly to an American visitor: "Very...
...down the wearer's neck. There is still the handy umbrella, adequate enough for the most part, but a bother in buses, impossible to hold onto in a fair-sized wind, and, in the wrong hands (usually belonging to little old ladies with shopping bags), a dangerous weapon...
With the largest auto population in the world, the U.S. travels on rubber-and each wheel means a sale for some tire manufacturer. The fight to make that sale has led to one of the biggest price wars in years. The main weapon in the war is a new, low-priced tire known in the trade as a "cheapie," which sells for as little as $6.95 v. about $25 for a standard quality name-brand tire. The stakes are big: the tire industry sells some $3 billion worth of tires a year. The contestants are many: more than 115 brands...
Fencing, which today seems to be one of the most archaic of sports, is in fact a relatively modern art. Paradoxically, it resulted from the invention of gunpowder, for until then swords men had always flailed away with weapons that looked and hefted more like crowbars than épées. By the 16th century, Italian gallants had developed a light, delicately balanced rapier with the sharp point that enabled them to thrust instead of slice with the blade. Thus was born true swordsmanship. It was a century later, at the court of France's Sun King, that...
...Lyndon Johnson will have another campaign point, and the U.S. will enjoy much more freedom of maneuver in foreign and domestic economic policy. For one thing, the better balance relieves the U.S. of much political pressure from the French, who have brandished their large hoard of dollars as a weapon and, says Chief Economic Adviser Walter Heller, often made U.S. officialdom feel "like mendicants"; last year the French drained off $500 million worth of U.S. gold and threatened to convert even more dollars. No one can be certain if or when the U.S. will achieve a surplus-partly because foreign...