Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gold flow, the draft ("First of all, eliminate General Hershey") and alternatives to her father ("It's a pretty awful choice"). Ellen McCarthy, 20, will pitch in after her exams at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. The youngest McCarthy, the Senator's self-styled "secret weapon," is Margaret, 12, who has already made her contribution by addressing a New York group called "Living Kids for McCarthy." When Mrs. McCarthy asked her daughter how the speech went, Margaret said disgustedly: "They didn't ask me about any really important issues...
...civilian now. Back in July 1966, as a Marine lance corporal, he traded his rifle for a machine gun and rushed forward to help buddies in trouble near the Demilitarized Zone. Pittman singlehanded faced an assault by more than 30 North Vietnamese. His ammunition gone, he grabbed a Communist weapon, then a pistol from a fallen Marine, driving the attackers back with his last grenade...
Another adverse effect of the War on Poverty has been to set deprived minorities in competition with one another for federal aid. Militancy becomes a weapon for winning attention; and the minorities grow increasingly jealous and imitative of one another's extremism. "We've tossed a few crumbs in the middle of millions of the nation's people and said, 'Folks, you fight for it and may the best man win,' " says one high-ranking poverty warrior. "That's a disgrace." Nonetheless, for all its faults, the War on Poverty has at least dramatized the plight of the poor...
...each of three rabbits, whose eye structure is biologically similar to that of humans; he has caused permanent corneal scarring in one.* In Ann Arbor, Mich., the face of a Negro who was sprayed last March is still partially depigmented; Ann Arbor police have discontinued using the weapon. A Columbus reporter, Robert Mac Vicar, who was Maced in the face during Ohio State University demonstrations last fall, is suing for $300,000 for violation of his civil rights...
...spray. Pittsburgh Director of Public Safety David Craig took the opposite view. In most cities, newspaper reports of the Surgeon General's letter omitted the point that prompt treatment would forestall permanent damage. To Craig, that fact meant that Mace, properly used, was now clearly the safest weapon in his arsenal and "the first feasible nonlethal hand weapon since the caveman invented the wooden club...