Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British public in the years before Churchill became a member of the war cabinet. The paradox was that he remained in part unknown despite all his own writing, all his years of public service and all that had been written about him. He hid in the limelight. His secret weapon was that everyone thought he knew all about...
...that had been leveled at Castillo's government are now directed by the opposition toward the Perón administration. Electoral processes, while superficially normal, still give little chance to any but the party in power. But the hitherto neglected working classes have been forged into a political weapon that relieves the President of his sole reliance on the army as a means of staying in office. Higher wages have been showered on them (up 150% since 1943); massed descamisados are drafted for "spontaneous" demonstrations, and have gained a sense of participation in government they never had before...
...which set up a bureau to run the Voice of America and otherwise see that the U.S. story is told abroad. The bill called for the widest use of private agencies in telling that story. The free, nongovernmental press, said Congressmen who toured Europe last summer, was the best weapon against Russia's propaganda...
Later, in approving ECA, Congress had authorized $15 million to keep this weapon in action. The money would be used to swap currencies. In selling copies to foreign customers, U.S. publications take foreign money in payment. Part of this currency is blocked; little of it can be used by publishers to pay their expenses. By trading the foreign currencies to the U.S. Government for dollars, publishers could meet their expenses. No subsidy had been asked or offered: no publisher would make a profit out of the exchange...
...Dwyer got a kerosene lamp, pushed it into the room, saw that his quarry had gotten into bed. He dived, yanked back the blankets, grabbed the man's gun hand. It was like "holding the leg of a steer." The man wrestled desperately to bring his weapon to bear. O'Dwyer warned him, then pulled his own pistol, fired once, into the man's arm. The bullet plowed on and killed him. _ The D.A. His hard but priceless education on the waterfront was augmented by another: he went to Fordham University Law School. When he was admitted...