Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aides tenderly laid towels over the gaping wound; some 30 hard-hatted Memphis police swiftly converged on the motel in response to the shot. In doing so, they missed the assassin, whose weapon (a scope-sighted 30.06-cal. Remington pump rifle), binoculars and suitcase were found near the rooming house. A spent cartridge casing was left in the grimy lavatory. The range from window to balcony: an easy...
...escaped in exactly the right direction: the entrance to the rooming house fronted on a street just one block west of Mulberry, across which the shooting occurred. Thus the gunman had eluded the main concentration of police even before he hit the street. Just why he dropped his weapon and overnight bag is a mystery. Though the search spread to a six-state area (Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee), Attorney General Clark refused to predict an early arrest...
Though he is hardly the sort of President the law was designed to protect, De Gaulle in nine years has used it no fewer than 350 times as a powerful weapon against his critics. The penalty for violating the law can run as high as a $20,000 fine, a year in prison and loss of the right to vote. Government prosecutors are working overtime to bring violators to justice. A Paris court has just fined left-wing Writer François Fonvieille-Alquier for writing in his new book, To Relearn Irreverence, that the general gets carnal pleasure from...
...bomb experiments. But their scientific skills were not equal to the problems of dictatorial politics. When they tried to persuade their government of the importance of nuclear energy, German physicists pointedly avoided using the word bomb; they were fearful that Hitler might order the immediate production of a nuclear weapon and hold them responsible if they failed to perfect one. Unconvinced of its military value, Nazi leaders gave their atomic energy program a relatively low priority; they never came close to matching the tremendous expense and manpower poured into the U.S. Manhattan Project...
...adds considerably to the creature's strength. The discovery is executed in brilliant slow motion montage of the pre-ape destroying the skeleton with the bone, establishing Kubrick and Clarke's subjective anthropological notion that the discovery of the tool was identical to that of the weapon. The "dawn of man," then, is represented by a coupling of progress and destruction; a theme of murder runs through 2001 simultaneously with that of progress. Ultimately, Kubrick shows an ambiguous spiritual growth through physical death...