Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...America's own U.S. military machine, Forrestal said it badly needed cranking up. True, the U.S. did hold a "fair margin of superiority" on virtually every technical weapon. But even the atom bomb was neither sufficient to prevent attack, nor enough to insure victory after attack. Any war would require the best combined efforts of the Army, Navy and Air Force. And Jim Forrestal reported frankly that, after 15 months of "unification," they were a long way from being unified...
Cousy is the chief magician in Holy Cross' crowd-pleasing give-and-go, behind-the-back pass system. And his soft, tantalizing push shot is the most dangerous single weapon in the Crusader arsenal. It helped the Cross win the NCAA title two years ago, and just missed upsetting Kentucky in the same tourney last winter...
...year 1948-a fitful year in a nervous century-historians could record that a mass of U.S. intentions, promises and pledges had hardened into resolve and action. In 1948, the world's greatest nation of free men finally resolved to meet Communism's deadly challenge with every weapon of peace that it possessed; and if the struggle against Communism required war, the U.S. would fight...
...Further Step. Daniels carried this line of reasoning a step further at last April's Bogotá conference. Supported by Argentina, he advanced the doctrine of continuous recognition. The doctrine, adopted as Resolution 35, bound the conference's members to renounce recognition as a weapon in international politics. Recognition of Nicaragua followed...
...McNeil have graduated, and this year's Douglas Fairbanks is a sophomore named Fels Carter. Carter is inmber three man in the saber department right now, behind Tom Masterson and Bob Westhrin, who play a little more soberly. The saber is always the best weapon for razzle-dazzle stuff, since duellers can use the side of the sword to score touches. In the epee and foil, only the point counts...