Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Polaris, which accounts for a big share of Lockheed's $1.1 billion backlog, is also being talked about as a possible NATO weapon because it is so versatile, can be fired as easily from railroad cars or barges as from submarines...
...responsible for that. Reading his fabulous and farcical misadventures is an experience like being cornered by a compulsive talker whose merciless spate of words first glazes the eye until a thread of rewarding sense emerges from the gabble. In this respect, he is unlike the typical Chaplin figure, whose weapon was silence, but like Chaplin's little fellow, he is a reincarnation of the classic non-hero of Jewish folklore-Peter Schlemiel, the man without a shadow, who is the fated enemy of authority, whether commissar or cop. priest or rabbi, and whose talent it is to make...
...Welfare League, and filed a suit in the federal district court at Memphis. Last April they won a consent decree that outlawed Fayette County's all-white primary, and the number of registered Negro voters rose to 500 v. 5,000 whites. But the whites had another weapon...
...ship would need a navigation system of exquisite accuracy if it was to fire its birds on target, and the birds themselves would need a guidance system more precise than any then in production. Even more jarring to conservative Navymen, this was not a conventional, all-purpose Navy weapon. It was an out-and-out city killer; it seemed out of place in a naval tradition preoccupied with keeping the sea lanes free...
...single shot was fired. It was the first installment on the Polaris fleet that will run up a bill as large as the entire budget for the Strategic Air Command. But it was a cold war bargain. "It is not nearly so expensive," says Red Raborn proudly, "as a weapon that would not be pre-eminent in war. The second-best weapon is the one that costs too much." Last week there were few to argue that Polaris was second best...