Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...G.O.P. upped its 1946 margin of 54.4% to 55.1%-What pained the Democrats most was the national attention which the election got. They had started the fight; they could not alibi their way out of it now. The P.A.C. had poured out money and speakers whose principal campaign weapon was a pun: they called the new labor law the "Tuff-Heartless Act." Phil Murray, Walter Reuther, Alexander Whitney and other brasshats of labor had issued statements; Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. lent his name and presence. As for a trend, the Republicans could cite one: the Taft-Hartley Act is apparently...
...Under the Republicans, Wall Street ran America; under the present administration, Wall Street is all set to run the world. . . . The war-with-Russia hysteria is a propaganda weapon of reactionary capitalism. . . . Let us face the fact that our crises are not brought on by the Communists. The people responsible for high prices, high rents and growing insecurity are the monopoly capitalists and their political errand-boys...
...convention wore on, women began arming themselves with water pistols of their own (a favorite weapon: a pistol guaranteed to produce a hundred and fifty 25-ft. squirts) and engaged in duels with their tormentors. A Legion prankster who waved a dry but dangerous-looking red paintbrush in women's faces was clouted with an umbrella, several handbags, and a high-heeled shoe. But the Legionnaires welcomed competition with disconcertingly uproarious laughter, went right on gulping from pint bottles, dropping water bags and emitting an odd war cry: "Hya, Queenie, Queenie, Queenie-best old dog you ever...
...door opened and President Harry Truman slipped in, beaming. He was handed a veterinarian's hypodermic syringe-a horrible weapon with a needle as thick as a pencil and huge glass cylinder full of a gummy looking red fluid. He prodded the recumbent reporter. Vaccaro winced and the President said, "This won't hurt a bit, Tony...
What is a "weapon of mass destruction?" The Bomb, for one thing; but there are other potential horrors. The U.N.'s Commission for Conventional Armaments last week pondered the category of weapons of mass destruction, and U.S. Adviser Franklin A. Lindsay proposed this definition: "Any instrument or invention capable of destroying life and property on the scale of a plague, a flood, a famine or an earthquake...