Word: weaponeer
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...procedures, and training time had to be devoted to mastering the steps. “We spent about an hour the Wednesday prior to the game,” Jimmy said, “just practicing our maneuvers and gun manual so I actually knew how to handle the weapon.” Yet there was far more to the event than drill practice. Remember, McKinney and ROTC took the initiative in arranging the presentation. “It’s nice to raise awareness that there are fellow Harvard students who participate in ROTC,” Jimmy...
...1740s. Holyoke fought back with the snappily titled “The Testimony of the President, Professors, Tutors and Hebrew Instructor of Harvard College, Cambridge, Against the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield, and his Conduct.” This ignited a war of words—with pamphlets as weapon of choice—that would last for a year...
...Iraq. I strongly disagree. A president must make good decisions for the country. Have the candidates who voted for the Iraq war demonstrated that ability? Why did they vote for war? Did they evaluate Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's assertion that Iraq could have a nuclear weapon so soon? Did they not consider the possibility that removing Saddam Hussein from power might unleash a civil war among Iraq's intensely hostile ethnic groups? American voters need to understand what motivated those ayes in Congress. Elizabeth Terry Palm Coast, Florida...
...reviewing or replaying the bad decisions" related to the war in Iraq. I strongly disagree. Have the candidates who voted for the Iraq war demonstrated good decision making? Why did they vote for war? Did they evaluate Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's assertion that Iraq could have a nuclear weapon so soon? Did they not consider the possibility that removing Saddam Hussein from power might unleash a civil war among Iraq's intensely hostile ethnic groups? American voters need to understand what motivated those ayes in Congress...
...Opposition political parties were quick to turn the gaffe into a weapon against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, calling for Yanagisawa's resignation. The minister apologized repeatedly but has refused to resign, and so far Abe has stood behind him - calculating that he can't afford to lose a second cabinet minister just four months into his first term. (Genichiro Sata, minister of administrative reforms, resigned in December over a political funding scandal...