Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months U.S. space and intelligence experts have intensively analyzed a secret series of Soviet orbital experiments, suspecting from the start that Moscow was building a new space weapon. Last week, in a surprise Pentagon press conference, Defense Secretary McNamara confirmed that assumption...
...most world questions to which Christians can with equal sincerity adhere." Another resolution stated without amplification that nuclear war "is against God's will"-ignoring the fact that "the morality of deterrence depends upon it not being wholly immoral for a government ever to use an atomic weapon...
...cruel ruse, the CIA's team of writers resorted even to such time-worn tricks as the formless plot, the dialect joke, and the late-President slur. But again the audience refused to see its vision dashed, and the intelligence men's most basic weapon--mimic ability--carried the show. On top of which, the CIA as usual was technically flawless. The set it put together, even forgetting the incredibly short notice it had for last night's performance, was remarkable. So were the uniformly clever and colorful costumes. This being a commedia dell'arte with updated themes and references...
...house. No strangers, that is, no potential informers. And the old spirit came back. For hours we told one another the latest anti-junta jokes. The Greeks have a biting sense of humor. When the coup came, the terrified people, totally unprepared for resistance, reacted with the only weapon it then had-ridicule...
...Philippines, where having guns and bodyguards is a matter of prestige and power, almost everybody who is anybody packs a weapon. Manila is the world's only major city where office buildings and bars have signs imploring customers to check their firearms when entering. But it is at election time that the murder rate really soars...