Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ordinarily the committee does not act in cases concerning individuals, she added. Their most effective weapon in situations suggesting racial tension has been to attack the roots of hatred found within law enforcement and civic organizations...
...advance that the confusion over this question among its adherents may be dissipated. The lessons learned by those who formed the United World Federalists at Asheville, North Carolina, two weeks ago, if used to combat both the pillar and the post type of thinking, can become a tremendous weapon on the side of a durable peace...
...field of domestic action, are wrangling over what to do and how to do it. And while the Nation's solons wrestle with the hopeless task of trying to legislate labor disputes out of existence, the workers themselves are readying to do battle with their only really effective weapon--the strike...
...balance of gains and losses when nations go to work. And since American thought and action and even food contributions constitute an unofficial but effective extension of government policy, the question remains-is the food sent to Europe by American students an instruments of understanding or a two-edged weapon which can be turned against the United States by the pride and hatreds of the old world...
...glands yield castor, which is widely used. So is loud-smelling civet. Perfume chemists once eyed skunks, encouraged by the fact that many people do not mind a distant skunk smell on a frosty morning. But the perfumers finally gave up on skunks: their scent is basically a defensive weapon rather than a sex lure. Muskrat glands, a cheap by-product of the fur trade, did work. The muskrat substance is not a very pleasant smell, but a lucky chemist discovered that he could split its molecules in two, turning it into a blockbusting fragrance not unlike musk. (The nonutilitarian...