Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front of the Conrad Hilton Hotel. At other times, the mayor magnified incidents to bolster his case. What would they do, he asked reporters, if someone tried to blind the man standing next to them by hurling oven cleaner? Though oven cleaner may have been used as a weapon by a few protesters, it was not the standard equipment that Daley and others implied. By the police department's own count, only five of 198 injuries to police could have been caused by spray in the face...
According to police, the sniper fired from a window perch in the rooming house. Stephens told authorities that seconds after the shots rang out he had seen a stranger hurrying down the stairs from the second floor, carrying a package that presumably concealed the murder weapon. Days later, he identified the man from photos as James Earl Ray, who was eventually seized in England and charged with King's murder...
...anything, we don't sell anything, we don't help, we don't understand, we don't betray." The tenth was printed in large letters: "We will not forget anything." The "commandments" proved to be captive Czechoslovakia's secret weapon against the Russian invaders...
...Avars in the 5th century, later to the German emperors of the Holy Roman Empire and finally to the Habsburgs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Czechs and the Slovaks were perhaps the first people in Central Europe to develop a sort of natural identity, and their first weapon was religion. They won from Rome the right to conduct their religious services in Slavonic in the 9th century. Partially as a result of this independence, the Czechs started the Reformation 100 years before Luther. The revolt was led by Jan Hus, who called for a reform of the Catholic Church...
...become the fifth member of the hydrogen club, France is at least four years away from having a missile system capable of giving its big new bang the proper ride. Still, despite his recent troubles at home, Charles de Gaulle is determined to press ahead with his nuclear-weapon development program as the premier proof of his restoration of la gloire to France...