Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fencing, the idea is to move your sword as little as possible. That's the idea Perey in trying to get across. Sweeping your weapon grandly through the air, he says, in like stepping to stretch when you're boxing Joe Louis...
...have long experience in this matter, and I can assure the House that it is most improvident to get rid of the vital weapon you have until you have a better one to put in its place. What has happened to the enormous masses of artillery? . . . What have we ... in organized and equipped formations that can be sent abroad or brought into action in this country...
Under the Foam. Even with this ideological weapon, Communism could not have won China without violence...
...backward countries was worked out in China. It is the great political invention of the 20th Century, far more deadly than Fascism, because it can be applied to nearly all the 1,400,000,000 people who are at present neither thoroughly democratized nor thoroughly communized. If the new weapon cannot be defeated in China, there is no reason to suppose it can be defeated anywhere in the three-fourths of the world upon whose support the struggle between Communism and the West depends...
This incident on a South African coach in 1893 foreshadowed a movement that has since made history. The young Indian was Mohandas Gandhi, and the nonviolent resistance he was practicing later became a mighty weapon for a weaponless people. To Gandhi himself, nonviolence was much more than a weapon; it was part of a religious way of life which he called Satyagraha. In a short book published this week-Satyagraha (Henry Regnery, $2)-Gandhi Disciple Ranganath R. Diwakar explains this philosophy to Western readers...