Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate's Republican Policy Committee unlimbered a heavy-caliber political weapon last week. To clear the way for a Republican President next January, it announced that the Senate would confirm no more presidential appointments before the session's end. The decision affected some 1,000 civilian vacancies, 859 of them postmasterships. The only exceptions would be for the military and for Cabinet officers...
Said critics of the bill: 1) it endangered civil liberties; innocent but misguided citizens were not given sufficient protection in the courts; 2) the bill could conceivably be used as a weapon against labor unions, or against any unpopular, radical or disaffected group; 3) the bill's phrases could be interpreted in various ways...
With his mincing ways, his curls and his 88 fancy bathrobes, George is plainly a ring villain. His "secret weapon": bobby-pins (he calls them Georgie-pins) which he sometimes pulls from his golden hair and pretends to poke into his opponent's impervious thighs...
Such haggling never distracts the Russians from their more serious efforts to cut down Berlin's price. Economic strangulation is advancing steadily, but it is a slow process. Terror is a faster weapon. While Russian propaganda screams that U.S. forces have kidnaped 40,000 Berliners, while it warns in black newspaper headlines BERLIN IS NOT CHICAGO, the MVD proves its mastery of the arts of Capone and Beria. Warning phone calls, threatening letters, shadowing agents are merely the trivial daily nuisances that plague anti-Reds. The MVD's serious work is executed in a garish, blue-grey house...
...quite all: a thousand yards up the road was a Russian outpost. Through field glasses, the Americans watched the Russians watching them through glasses of their own. As the U.S. party waited in the hot sun, some Russians fired a few quick bursts from an automatic weapon. Some of the Americans flexed for a dive to cover. Then they checked: this was only target practice...