Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says General Bruce Clarke, commander in chief of the U.S. Army in Europe (USAREUR) and NATO's Central Army Group (CENTAG). Says Davidson: "The Soviet and Czech soldiers may have more rural ruggedness than our kids, but there's no mental comparison. Man for man and weapon for weapon, I'll take our people any time...
...37th Battalion was a fearsome weapon of destruction from the moment it wheeled into action in Normandy in July 1944. From the start, Abrams showed the feel and flair of the born combat man. As General George Patton's Third Army led the conquering sweep across Europe, the 4th Armored Division led the Third Army, the 37th Tank Battalion led the 4th Armored-and Abe Abrams led the 37th. Leaning out of his Sherman tank, he chomped on a huge cigar and rallied his tankers with his war cry: "Attack! Attack! Attack!" Said Abrams...
...Weapon. A set of rosary beads is divided into five groups called decades, with ten beads per decade. In saying the rosary, the user recites ten Hail Marys for each decade, meditating as he does so on a meaningful episode in the life of Christ or Mary, known as a "mystery." Each decade begins with the Lord's Prayer and ends with a Gloria ("Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end"). In a full recitation, which takes...
...rosary to some 250,000 people in Golden Gate Park; last year in South America he distributed 1,500,000 rosaries to the poor. Says he: "The rosary has accomplished many great wonders in the world. When recited in the family each day, it is the most powerful weapon in our armory today against the evils that beset...
...cold war can be brought to a quick and satisfactory conclusion if only it is fought by men whose appearance is tougher and whose speech is harsher than Kennedy's, or Stevenson's, or Arthur Dean's. The reaction to General MacArthur's recall has shown how powerful a weapon against liberal treatment of diplomatic and military policy the victimized general can be. He has had too many guts, too much backbone, he must be dispensed with: it is a curiously compelling accusation...