Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conservative Congress members tried to convince younger party members that Gandhi's nonviolent noncooperation was not an outmoded weapon. But with the Mahatma in jail on what may be his last earthly birthday, discipline was deteriorating. There was little evidence that violence was any more under control than when Gandhi and other Congress leaders were jailed two months...
Cavalry is the Russian winter weapon. Some of these horsemen were operating with General Melnik the whole of .last winter some five hundred miles behind the German lines. One of the officers told me they were pretty lean when they came out, but now they are square-looking again, their horses are fresh and they can sing...
...open meeting Wednesday night Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, said that while wining the war is the country's first duty, consideration of post-war problems is of paramount importance now as a propaganda weapon for victory...
...supporting or is adversely affecting the war effort." But like most phases of the draft, its use to enforce work-or-fight rulings is surrounded by confusion. Major General Lewis B. Hershey, national Selective Service director, said last week that he was opposed to .using the draft as a weapon against strikes "at present"-but he did not interfere in Mobile and he suggested using the draft to keep farm hands on the job. Local boards, he said, will have to solve "99% of their own problems...
...years had passed since the R.A.F.'s overstrained pilot fighters broke the Luftwaffe's back (on Sept. 15, 1940 they downed 185 German planes) and the first Battle of Britain waned. The Luftwaffe was a weapon designed as the Army's air arm, not primarily for mass raids. Its attack on Britain was a none-too-brilliant job of improvisation. Since then German aircraft production has kept abreast of the Army's needs, but it is doubtful if Germany has been able to develop the heavy-bomber production which Britain and the U.S. achieved only after...