Word: weaponeering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Switzer, who has the best physical equipment on the squad, has worked competently at both center and guard. Redmond, a member of a crack Belmont High team last year, has turned out to be an effective offensive weapon. His shooting is accurate and if time improves his defensive play, weak at present, he should see more action...
...beefy, six foot four inch center named Jim McFadden is, by virtue of his size--a department in which the Crimson is dismally deficient, the chief Weapon which Newman will roll into the blockhouse. Big men who literally overpower Harper's economy size players under the boards have always been a source of difficulty to the '52 quintet...
Back to Garfield. Stubborn Chairman Scott fought back. To those who blamed the party's 1948 disaster on him, Scott let it be known that he had a secret weapon: recordings of telephone conversations during the campaign, in which many state leaders had been put on record as approving Dewey's campaign strategy. "Blackmail," cried his opponents. Said Scott, scrambling metaphors right & left: "Age must have its fling. The cliffhangers are making a last-ditch fight . . . My view is that the party has a choice of going back to Garfield or forward to victory." At 48, Hugh Scott...
...Soft Answer. Soft-voiced Louis St. Laurent tried to get off an effective reply, but his first, dignified answers were no match for Drew's slashing style. Then St. Laurent unsheathed the Liberals' ultimate weapon: "The government is prepared to go to the people at any time on this issue." Only this week did he start cutting George Drew down to size...
Last week the Air Force announced that it has developed and tested two rockets that are really guided. One, the NATIV (North American Test Instrument Vehicle), is a small contraption 13 feet long, designed for high-speed aerodynamic studies. The other, the 774, looks like a formidable weapon (see cut). It is 32 feet long (the V-2 was 45 feet long), and, says the Air Force, "is potentially capable of attaining altitudes of more than 100 miles...