Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each of the major parties than any other member of any parliamentary age, and against each in turn he turned the full force of his own parliamentary oratory." Churchill, said Wilson, "was a warrior, and party debate was war. It mattered, and he brought to that war the conquering weapon of words fashioned for their purpose: to wound, never to kill; to influence, never to destroy...
...cheaters or had only tolerated cheating by others. The Air Force labeled the investigation "classified"; students who talked were threatened with dishonor able discharges and denial of the right to transfer their academic credits to an other school. It was, as one cadet parent put it, "a pretty strong weapon"−as well as a good way to guarantee that full details of the scandal will remain hidden for a long time to come...
Charles de Gaulle, who has long since learned how to use economics as a political weapon, last week hit the U.S. where it hurt: right in its gold reserves. In so doing, he sent shock waves throughout the international monetary system, of which the U.S. is the mainstay, and revived doubts about the system's basic strength and resiliency...
Strongest Weapon. Though France has a huge and rising deficit in trade with the U.S., it still rakes in plenty of nontrade dollars with which to do battle. Every year in France, U.S. military forces spend $200 million, U.S. tourists leave behind $300 million and U.S. businessmen invest well over $1 billion. After subtracting for its imports from the U.S., France runs up an annual dollar surplus of $700 million, for which it can demand U.S. gold. Says Yale Economist Robert Triffin, one of the world's top gold authorities: "One of the two strongest bargaining weapons that France...
...many dollars as possible into gold. Some influential supporters egged him on, and he was likely influenced by the ideas of French Economist Jacques Rueff, who has long lobbied for a worldwide return to the gold standard, and of Foreign Minister Couve de Murville, who can always use another weapon to supplement France's increasingly independent foreign policy. But more moderate minds persuaded De Gaulle against such drastic action, and what started out as a reported $1 billion conversion, in rumors leaked to the press by the foreign ministry, wound up as a $300 million operation-with perhaps more...