Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flimflam. Gaud, 60, promptly issued "rectification orders." Embarrassed AID officials started reshipping 18 crates of tool kits-which had rusted on Buenos Aires docks for nine years-to Paraguay. They also cut off aid to Vietnamese businessmen who had been accused of importing antiaircraft weapon parts only to sell them to the Viet Cong...
...have often shaken governments, particularly in the world's less stable areas, they have seldom actually brought them down. Yet last week, in stable, bourgeois Belgium, the government was toppled by students at the University of Louvain, the world's largest Roman Catholic university. The students' weapon: a major exacerbation of the longtime tension between Belgium's Dutch-speaking Flemish majority and its French-speaking Walloon minority...
...Finn Larsen, who last month insisted that the population below would scarcely notice the explosions of Spartan and Sprint warheads, and that at worst humans might suffer temporary blindness if they were looking directly at the flash. Exploded 100 miles above New Brunswick, N.J., Lapp said, a one-megaton weapon would create a spectacular, incandescent fire-pancake 50 miles up so large that it would overlap both New York and Philadelphia...
...Sprint caused an incoming ICBM to explode at an altitude of 50 miles or less, the results would be more devastating. Quoting from an AEC publication, Lapp reported that in a test of a megaton-range weapon exploded 50 miles over the Pacific in 1958, exposed rabbits had suffered retinal burns at slant distances up to 345 miles from the blast. Furthermore, the AEC document read, "it is felt that there would be some danger to human beings at distances greater than 200 miles under similar circumstances...
...wife, secretary and mother to B-G through 51 years of revolution, rule and final retirement to a kibbutz in 1963. Paula's touch was homey-she fetched thermos jugs of coffee to her husband at the Knesset during late-night debates-but her tongue was a national weapon. "I understand," she told Charles de Gaulle, when he adamantly refused to talk to her except in French. "We both have trouble mit da English...