Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their own way the Nazis also used the fear that 1918 conjures up in German hearts, seeking to strengthen the people's determination to hold out and ward off repetition of the disaster. Fear of another 1918 was also a weapon in Nazi hands-perhaps their last...
...howitzer, amazingly accurate over a range of 20 miles or more, a weapon of high mobility that would be valuable in reducing strong points during a stalemate...
...Though the admirals can now dig up speeches to show that they realized the value of carrier-cruiser task forces long before Pearl Harbor, it was the lash of post-Pearl Harbor necessity that forced some of them to shove the startling World War II weapon, the carrier, into the No. 1 capital-ship slot. Many admirals were mentally aware of the new order in naval affairs, but their hearts were still on the bridges of their battleships. Pearl Harbor did not make those admirals love the airplane, but it forced them to marry...
...Universal) is a swift, amusing, amiable melodrama in which murder and Nazi secret agents are no great hazard for sultry Starlet Diana Barrymore. Promoted from pigtails (TIME, Oct. 5), she handles with easy competence a handsome negligee and a whiskey bottle. (She uses the bottle as an anti-Fascist weapon...
...Axis had two other pressure weapons. One was economic strangulation. Switzerland's main economic life line, through the Mediterranean and north Italy, had become a very thin thread susceptible to being pinched off at half a dozen points. Her secondary life line, overland from Lisbon through France, could be cut at any moment. Finally, with troops on every frontier, the Germans had the weapon of military invasion...