Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fell short of greatness because he masked his reformer's spirit by writing humorous books-in short, by making a joke of a crusade. Twelve years later, Harvard Critic Bernard De Voto challenged that theory by showing that Twain's very humor was a crusader's weapon. With it, said De Voto, Twain exposed the hypocrisy of a century in which aggrandizement all too often passed under the name of progress. The distinctive virtue of Justin Kaplan's book is that even while failing to resolve all controversy about Twain, it does a commendable...
...Communist people's army lines, with political commissars seeded through the ranks and political indoctrination as much a part of a soldier's training as bayonetry. He had even recruited Japanese jungle-warfare instructors from the retreating enemy he had just fought, and had carefully collected every weapon the Japanese left behind. It took four years to get Phase 1 and Phase 2 going well enough to launch Phase 3-the first of his major offensives against the French forces...
...must be reported to the police or result in criminal proceedings, and be serious enough to call for damage payments of at least $140. There is no maximum. Not eligible for benefits: victims living in the assailant's household, auto victims (unless the car was used as a weapon), children born of sexual offenses, and claimants for "loss of expectation of happiness...
Harvard had gone ahead in the ninth with a desperate rally of its own. Trailing 3-2, the Crimson picked up one run on Jim Tobin's triple, a walk, and Coach Norm Shepard's favorite weapon, a suicide squeeze. Then Joe O'Donnell, breaking out of a season-long slump, drove in the lead run with a single...
...decade--in the case of China--and are not about to attack us--in the case of France. Impossible, because even a limited system would eventually have no less impact on Soviet offensive preparations than the prospect of a minor Soviet defense is already having on our offensive weapon expenditures. Long lead times for the construction of deterrent forces being what they are, both sides would, for all practical purposes, have to accept a minor missile defense as the thin edge of a wedge--and all would respond accordingly...