Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...test ban partly on improvement of detection devices. Russell argued that the treaty would handicap U.S. progress toward developing an effective anti-ballistic missile system, since warheads could only be tested underground. "What a paradox," he said. "We will not buy a simple rifle, or even the most primitive weapon in our arsenal, a bayonet, unless it has been subjected to exhaustive tests under every conceivable condition. Here we would accept, with childlike faith in mathematical formulas and extrapolation, the efficiency of the most intricate, complicated and costly weapon without even one test under war conditions...
...could forgive the world its sins because they were more stupid than wicked. But though forgiveness came easy, David Low, who died last week at 72, could not bring himself to overlook either stupidity or wickedness. For 60 years he attacked them both with brilliant and unparalleled ferocity. His weapon was the cartoonist's brush...
...sheriff arrested McDowell as he left his class. The 21-year-old law student was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, a charge which carries a maximum
Stop right there. Talking at Harvard is not what it was at old Central High. There you talked just when you felt like saying something. Here talking is a tool and a weapon. Your courses are not a handful of cards, to be slapped down face up and turned for chips. Rather, like the calves of a Victorian lady, they are to be displayed to the vulgar view only at the most propitious moment, and then only after suitable preparatory skirmishes...
Sundquist sped to the cab but, in the tension of the moment, could not make either it or its radio work. The murderer returned shortly and asked, while brandishing the murder weapon, to be driven from the scene. Sundquist complied...