Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frontiers extend into the sky? All nations agree that a country's territorial rights extend above its land. But that agreement is fairly new-dating from World War I, when man began to appreciate the potential of the airplane as a weapon of combat and reconnaissance...
...building is only one story high. The obvious questions are: How deep does the work go underground, and what is being done inside it? Novelist Hyams went on BBC-TV to ask "why the government cannot say, 'This is being caused by a defense apparatus or a secret weapon. For your own safety, will you please put up with it?'" Instead, he complained, "There have been evasions, lyings, even a sort of shrugging of shoulders and a sneer which has made us all the more determined to find out what it is and damned well put a stop...
...Davy Crockett tactical nuclear weapon, a sort of mortar that fires an atomic shell roughly 5 in. in diameter, with a punch enormously greater than the biggest conventional artillery shell ever fired. The Jeep-mounted version is fired by two men, has a range of five miles; the lighter, three-mile version is carried and fired by three soldiers on foot. The House Appropriations Committee was so impressed with the Davy Crockett that it voted funds for an extra 6,000 in addition to the number (secret) already provided for in the Administration budget...
...object of the $100 million project announced fortnight ago by India's partner in the scheme, the Ford Foundation (TIME, May 9). Until it begins to pay off with massively greater crop yields, S. K. Patil's stockpile will provide insurance against famine and a massive weapon against the speculators who year after year have been able to manipulate India's grain prices to the disadvantage of the largely helpless, hungry consumers...
...that the king could first wound him with arrows. At last the monarch would step forward, his left arm wrapped in a heavy cloth (which the artist here omits so as not to disfigure the king). As the lion reared for the last time, the king would plunge his weapon through the great beast's body...