Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John L. had a terrible weapon and no qualms about using it. He had the means of freezing up U.S. industry, the means of hurting the U.S. abroad. He had allies as well as power. Many a businessman, desperate for coal, was for peace at almost any price. Labor backed him, from the simple instinct of self-preservation...
...demoralization of the Japanese and led to ultimate surrender, thus saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of American men who would otherwise have been lost. God grant that we might have had this bomb at the start of the conflict. God grant that this nation have such a weapon as this if & when our enemies feel the time is ripe to strike another blow at Freedom and mankind...
People in Servitude. From his carefully prepared brief, Padway, a labor lawyer for 31 years, traced the history of injunctions in the U.S. For years management had made full use of that weapon, persuading the nation's judges, backed by the militia and the police, to enjoin labor from making any offensive move. The practice became so notorious that Congress tried to limit it in 1914 with the Clayton act. But the judges were reluctant to give up their power. In 1932 Congress tried again with the Norris-LaGuardia anti-injunction...
...were killed the young larvae would soon die and the cycle would be broken. Barlow, an old China hand (21 years a Baptist medical missionary) and longtime Rockefeller Foundation hookworm researcher in Egypt, retired five years ago to devote himself, as an Egyptian Government health officer, to snail extermination. Weapon: a copper sulphate purge, dumped into the Nile and its network of canals...
...philosophers were mistaking the word for the thing, communicating their meaning imperfectly, and in short often didn't know what the hell they were talking about. Ogden and Richards were then able to carry through that admirable work of distillation called Basic, and to explore its possibilities as a weapon against illiteracy, and as a new lingua franca. "Every time the Powers meet, the need for a universal language is emphasized," Professor Richards points...