Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...potential new weapon, used experimentally on mice, cockroaches and mosquitoes by the Army Signal Corps at State College, Pa., employs...
Lewis, who has a record of 30 convictions, was released from State Prison in 1941, where he had served a term for carrying a concealed weapon and possessing burglars tools. Detectives closed in on him Friday after hearing that he had just returned from a hurried out-of-town trip...
...concerning the general line the influence should take is equally clear cut. The legislation, it feels, must provide for enough money to make the program one of recovery rather than one of relief. The legislation must provide a positive program for European aid, not a negative anti-Russian economic weapon. It must not be used as a lever to influence the internal politics of the European nations involved. Finally, it must be implemented as much as possible through the United Nations. This program has deliberately been exempted from rigorous technicalities. The Committee, again displaying sanity did not feel itself qualified...
...Gandhi's weapon contained a measurable threat of violence in India. When Gandhi fasted, Britons sometimes dared not keep him in jail, lest a massive anger at his death in their hands engulf India. "I always get my best bargains behind prison bars," he once chuckled. When Gandhi fasted, Moslem, Hindu and Untouchable leaders had to promise to work better together, lest that anger of the masses be directed against them. No communal group, not the mighty British Raj itself, dared have Gandhi's blood on its hands...
...seldom get hurt," said Perey, "but once in a while the blade breaks on a weapon and the shaft goes right...