Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nowadays trained intelligence is the nation's greatest weapon in the battle for a world fit for people and safe for people," Stevenson maintained. "We have to cherish and expand every 'erg' of brain power we have...
...program was not merely a temporary measure to redressing the balance between College and University it gave Harvard an administrative weapon which might be used whenever the College was in danger of losing its support. As John U. Monro, Dean of the College, recently put it, "a soundly conceived program of General Education can become . . . the central position of the central position of strength from which the whole college--president, dean, faculty members--coming together in the name of the college,--can, quite simply do those things for its students which ought to be done, but which we know will...
...hardly satisfied by the Administration's efforts at deals, bargains, and closed-door negotiations. But as of last week, about the best they could expect from the Administration was a bill, to be sent to Congress, proposing to use the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution as a weapon to bring federal suits against private segregated firms and stores. Because nearly every imaginable item-from films for theaters to catchup for restaurants-moves in interstate commerce, such a law would bring nearly every kind of business in the country within reach of a federal suit after a refusal...
...fire against the lumbering, defenseless H-21s threatened to halt the government's helicopter airlift campaign, which had been the most effective offensive tactic against the Red guerrillas. Reluctantly the top U.S. military brass, which had long been skeptical that a helicopter could ever be a deadly offensive weapon, threw the newly-arrived Hueys into combat. Their mission: to escort and protect the troop-carrying copters...
Last week the New Jersey coastal community of Toms River (pop. 7,000) opened what the state's Health Commissioner Roscoe P. Kandle called "a new front in an old war." It did so with a new weapon: a more efficient and more economical test for TB infection than any previously available. Developed by New York's Lederle Laboratories, the "tine test" uses no awesome and sometimes painful needle but a disposable gadget with four tiny prongs in its business end. The tines are coated with protein from dead TB bacilli. If the punctured area becomes inflamed within...