Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What can be done? UNRRA, the American Red Cross, Europe's handful of doctors have failed to stop the white plague's spread. This month one of Europe's smallest countries, Denmark, will launch a brave try. Its weapon: BCG vaccine (TIME, Nov. 11), which in Danish tests has reduced the T.B. rate to one-seventh that among the unvaccinated. In the next few weeks Danish Red Cross teams, each consisting of a doctor, two nurses and a secretary, will go to Warsaw, Budapest and Rendsburg, Germany, to begin vaccinating their populations, children first...
Professor Matthiessen stressed the two Marxist concepts of "art as a reflection of society" and "art as a weapon," pointing out that to Marx and Engels the great artist is the man who can "give the fullest picture of the reality of his time, not a future historical solution of the basic conflict he is describing." Marxists thus are more interested in the functions of art, not the aesthetic values of its form...
...Free and Responsible Press" may be employed very skillfully by those totalitarians who desire neither a free nor a responsible press. Rather than permit these people to use it as a weapon with which to throttle a democratic institution, intelligent leaders of the American press should take to heart the eminently sensible statements of this Report and erase the symptoms of a disease which encourages the malicious work of free-expression suppressers...
Said Vermont's Senator George Aiken: "Food is the most potent weapon we can use today ... to oppose the forces of totalitarianism [in] the small, famine-stricken countries...
Headed for Trouble. In Portland, Ore., Marie Montoya topped off her hairdo with a paring knife, got arrested for carrying a concealed weapon...