Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committees that the Soviet Union has gone ahead to install hundreds of giant S59 intercontinental ballistic missiles, each of which can deliver up to 25-megaton hydrogen warheads. (The U.S. Minuteman ICBM carries a relatively modest one-megaton punch.) The SS-9, said Laird, is far too potent a weapon for the mere destruction of cities: since the Soviets must have it in their inventory for the purpose of knocking out a tougher target, the U.S. ICBMs in their silos...
...state that Detroit has adopted a new police weapon known as the "nutcracker" [Feb. 28]. This is completely incorrect. The Detroit police department has not adopted such a weapon, we have not issued any to officers, we have not ordered or purchased any, and we do not intend to order or purchase...
...have never even had any experience with it. It is also difficult to comprehend how you can quote a "Detroit police official" as saying, "With six men carrying the sticks, we can penetrate 50 men and bust up their formation and come back out," when, in fact, the weapon has never been used in any crowd-control situation in Detroit or by Detroit police officers...
...these days of delicate relationships between the police and the community, I am sorry that you have mistakenly made it appear that our officers control crowds by flailing individuals with a weapon that breaks limbs and fractures skulls...
After a successful regular season, the Harvard fencing team wound up in a disappointing eighth place in the three-weapon Intercollegiate Fencing Championships this weekend at New York University...