Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which had to cope with the same thing last year in rehearsals for Henry the Fourth. From that production they have learned two lessons--to wear rubber soles on your sandals and to attach your blades firmly to the hilt; a telling blow from the weapon of Monday Weisgal '45 sent his sword hurting into the wings during the climax of one show last year, where it flattened Jan Farrand...
...Sense of Sin. Los Alamos and its aftermath left him with "a legacy of concern." Two years later Oppenheimer told his fellow physicists that their weapon had "dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose...
Although the United States should not attempt to force capitalism on Western European nations, Professor Harris believes that the economic recovery of Europe is the best weapon against the spread of communism...
Americans who feel that ERP can be used as a weapon to force our brand of free enterprise on Europe are making a serious mistake, warns economics professor Seymour Harris...
...inaugural address, stopping once to snuffle into a handkerchief because of a bad cold. The new president's address was proper, unexciting, and meant to reassure everyone that he had laid down his sword & shield. Said Eisenhower: "If this were a land where the military profession is a weapon of tyranny or aggression-its members an elite caste dedicated to its own perpetuation-a lifelong soldier could hardly assume my present role. But in our nation the Army is the servant of the people ... Hence, among us, the soldier who becomes an educator . . . enters no foreign field . . ." Eisenhower...