Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least a decade, the nuclear-weapon and missile-development programs have been top-priority items for Peking, and are generously supplied with scarce capital equipment and even scarcer trained manpower. China is rich in the raw materials of the nuclear age, even used to export uranium ore to Russia before the ideological split in 1960. Its gaseous-diffusion plant at Lanchow is estimated to turn out enough U-235 to build some 20 bombs a year, and Peking now has as many as 80 bombs of various kinds in various stages of development. That rate will likely soar sharply...
...pledged to do battle against them throughout 1968. The latest effort features such creatures as the flat-spare bug, the wobbly-mirror bug and the mirror-smearer bug-which "multiply like mad if left alone." In a really competitive business, explains Avis President Winston Morrow, service is the ultimate weapon...
Reformers have argued for years that the ultimate weapon of the poverty war should be a program of guaranteed work for every adult willing and physically able to hold a job. Last summer's urban violence gave new impetus to the idea. The Urban Coalition-a group of business, labor, political, religious and civil rights leaders-backed the proposal, and a bipartisan group of Senate liberals fought for legislation to implement it. But the Johnson Administration actively opposed the bill...
...days, seven stalwarts manned a defensive line, and they did not have to be particularly mobile or particularly intelligent-just particularly immovable. Then in the 1950s, as offenses became more sophisticated and the pass became a primary weapon, the New York Giants hit on the "four-three" defense: a four-man forward wall buttressed by three linebackers. The conversion of three linemen into secondary defenders provided extra coverage of pass receivers, but it also left four men to do the job of seven in rushing the passer and shutting off the run. Suddenly, defensive linemen had to be bigger, faster...
Sterne was limping slightly, but he won five straight points and the game despite a second mishap. He shattered his racquet on the back wall in hitting the winning point. Armed with a new weapon, he went on to win the third game...