Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moving at last to action, the faculty has a powerful weapon: statewide fear that Ole Miss may yet lose accreditation when the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools meets at the end of this month. "If one teacher is fired for his views now," says History Professor Silver, "it will be curtains for the university." The faculty is thus free at last to make Ole Miss hew to law and learning. By all evidence, most professors are now solidly behind one colleague's summation: "The powers of darkness abound. It's up to us to work...
...oxygen furnaces at the Richard Thomas & Baldwins mill are the newest weapon that steelmen around the world are wielding to compete with cement, aluminum and plastics. Pure oxygen, when blown into steel crucibles, enables them to make steel faster and cheaper than ever before. Last August, boldly investing in the future despite poor current business, U.S. Steel Corp. announced that it will build two iso-ton "basic oxygen" furnaces at its Duquesne works. Last month. National Steel Corp. opened two 300-tonners at its Great Lakes works. In all, LD fur naces are now pouring steel in 17 nations from...
Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, also explained that the Russians regard secrecy as a weapon and are therefore unwilling to yield it as a mere procedure preliminary to disarmament...
...Soviet secret agent and that years earlier he had hunted down and killed two Ukrainian anti-Red emigrés in Munich. The reason why the deaths had not attracted special attention-one was put down as a heart attack, the other as suicide-proved bizarre. His weapon, said Stashinsky, had been a single-barreled aluminum air gun that fired a pellet of liquid potassium cyanide through a fine mesh screen, releasing a poison spray. The poison caused death within 90 seconds after it was inhaled, leaving no mark on the victims...
Stashinsky pulled through. While passing Rebet on the staircase of an office building, he pointed the six-inch aluminum barrel at Rebet's face and pulled the trigger. Rebet toppled without a sound, and Stashinsky did not look back as he walked to a canal and dropped the weapon into the water. Two years later, he killed another exiled Ukrainian leader, Stefan Bandera, almost as smoothly. But while watching a newsreel of Bandera's funeral in a movie theater, Stashinsky felt his conscience catching up with him. "It hit me like a hammer," he said. "From then...