Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ultimate Weapon. Recovering its breath this week, the nation wondered: Was this kind of thing going to happen every few years? Strikes in some indus tries could be endured. But a railway strike was unendurable. What had happened to the "model" Railway Labor Act of 1926 which was supposed to relieve the country of such crises?* This was the fourth time since 1941 that the machinery of the act had collapsed...
...alligators was imported for the occasion from Dana Hall, the other belongs to a College student. Neither animal measures more than 13 inches in length, counting the tall which Pleus calls a particularly dangerous weapon, "if they...
Russia tried to handcuff this resolution with an amendment that news should be a propaganda weapon "for eradication of Fascism and Fascist ideology," a handy way of justifying the Kremlin-controlled press. Stooging for Russia, Polish Delegate Grosz, wanted U.S. newspapers condemned as "warmongers." The amendment was beaten 27 to 5, the five being the Russian bloc (Russia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Ukraine and Yugoslavia...
...Cambridge crew caught a crab at the start of its traditional race against Oxford. Then, with 200,000 people watching, Cambridge caught up with Oxford and forged ahead to win a five-length victory-in the fastest time since the race was first rowed in 1829. One Cambridge secret weapon: a cow that the crew had bought to insure a healthy supply of milk in food-scarce Britain...
Four Sentences; Two Columns. Henry replied in two radio speeches that sounded more than ever like the gospel from Moscow. Typical quotes: "The word 'Communism' is a much greater menace than the Communists. . . Adolf Hitler made good political use of this red-baiting weapon, but. . .his first attack was made on western democracies, not Russia. . . . It is not Russia, but American democracy which is the intended victim of the first attack...