Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kiloton is the equivalent in blast of 1,000 tons of TNT. The bomb that wrecked Hiroshima measured about 20 kilotons. In the strange vocabulary of nuclear weapons, a one-kiloton weapon is considered "small." A megaton is 1,000 kilotons, or the equivalent of 1,000,000 tons...
...housekeeping in a native hut. A slight (barely 100 Ibs.) man with bristling black hair and piercing eyes, he had a strange way with the wild animals-antelopes, buffaloes, lions, elephants-that were his charges, walked fearlessly among the wildest and greatest beasts. He always refused to carry a weapon against them. "If I did," he said, "even not to use it, the charm wou'd vanish, for I would have the overwhelming conviction of having committed a betrayal of the animals' trust." He bathed with hippos, swam with a pet crocodile. Once he came upon a lion...
...line was Soviet Ambassador to France Sergei Vinogradov with the news that France had just exploded in the Sahara its second atomic bomb-a small one, roughly the size of the U.S.'s Hiroshima bomb (20 kilotons), but far closer to being a portable, functional weapon than the first 60-to 70-kiloton French bomb...
SUGAR, one of the world's most closely regulated commodities, has become a powerful economic weapon as the strain in U.S.-Cuban relations has increased. Last week President Eisenhower asked Congress to extend the Sugar Act for four years, grant him authority to cut the quotas of any of the 15 foreign nations (including Cuba) that export sugar to the U.S. Beyond its political implications, Ike's action raised a more basic question: Should the U.S. continue a protectionist quota system that compels the consumer to support the price of sugar...
Thus, the U.S. has a potent weapon to reward its friends and punish its enemies, a weapon that more than balances the problematical gains that might be had by abolishing the quotas altogether...