Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek knew that literacy was a military weapon for an army that needed leaders. In 1940, near bombed-out Chungking, the National College for Rural Reconstruction was founded, with Yen as president...
...girl, but could not bring himself to do it when she was in a happy frame of mind; finally one night, when she was sad, he got it over with). But the crime is seldom shrewdly planned; many psychotic murderers operate in broad daylight, in public places, using any weapon that happens to come to hand. Another characteristic clue left by the mad killer is unnecessary roughness (cutting the body into ribbons or stuffing it into a drainpipe). Since the psychotic lives in a private world, he hardly ever has accomplices...
That was the current Communist line, and that was the not-very-secret weapon of Italian Communism. It was not only Sicilian peasants who fell for it. Chirped a Milanese debutante last week: "Communism doesn't prevent you from listening to music, sipping tea or eating pastry...
...climax of this sweetness-&-light campaign conies when "Father Palmiro" and his Communist Curates vote for the reaffirmation of the Lateran Pact (TIME, April 7), thus depriving the Christian Democrats of their most effective antiCommunist weapon-the charge that the Communists fight Christianity. Says a Communist observer: "You might say that Togliatti decided for the moment to dispense with the crude sickle in favor of the more delicate rapier. And instead of the hammer, we find Terracini's parliamentary gavel more effective...
With a Faculty vote of April 15 as a weapon, the Traveler charged Quixote like into the windmill of traditional masculine sanctity. The vote, which Boston reporter Alice Burke charged meant "Faculty Has Plan to Open Courses to Radcliffe Girls," was in effect simply a continuation of the joint instruction policy which has existed since...