Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Applauded in the U.S., Biddle's ruling also became a potent weapon on the propaganda front. Its effect in the softening-up drive on Italy was noticeable in the violence of the Italian reply. Bleated the Rome radio: "We will only oppose these buffoon maneuvers with our contempt...
...operation under today's high-altitude tactics in Britain. Both are outclassed in the high-altitude field by the British Spitfire and the German Messerschmitt 109 and Focke-Wulf 190. But it is one of the paradoxes of aircraft performance that the P39 has proved a splendid weapon on the Russian and Aleutian fronts [where lower altitudes are the rule] and that the P-40 is a first-line fighter in Egypt...
Japan's enemies were learning about the Japanese weapon: surprise is worth many divisions. They were learning, at last, how to fight the Japanese brand of jungle warfare. And in the Aleutians, in the New Guinea area and in the Solomons the Japs were taking a course in the cost of long communication lines: about 344 planes lost, 19 ships sunk, 21 damaged since Aug. 1. The Japanese could put a few hundred men on an island. Supplying and reinforcing them was another matter. Wake Island is farther from Tokyo than it is from Honolulu; Kiska is about...
...Indians are about to break up Dick Harlow's famous looping defense, and they have a very good weapon. Lining up in an orthodox double wing, the Hanover men shift left or right into a single wing on almost every play. Sometimes they do not shift at all, but run plays directly from the original formation...
...Dartmouth shift has succeeded in pulling opponent lines offside on a few occasions this fall, but it cannot be considered as important an offensive weapon as Harlow's own double shift proved to be against Pennsylvania...