Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would put in torment their souls for their base, utter disregard of all the principles of humanity. . . . Who is he? This minister might just as well damn every Air Corps officer, every bombardier, every flame-throwing private, every machine gunner and every rifleman to everlasting hell for using a weapon as destructive as the one he carried in defense of his country...
...hard-headed, urgent, home need. Because Russia is not naively confident of peace, her disarmament plans can hardly be attributed to a clever scheme for gaining arms supremacy. The second point is that Russia used generous amounts of mechanized equipment in the late struggle and is experimenting with atomic weapons today. It seems extremely unlikely that she will let outsiders convince her that huge masses of men are her finest weapon. Criticism of Soviet motives for disarmament are particularly futile at this time...
Many an accused would find it easy to duck out of range by denying, as usual, that Communism motivated his policy. But the resolution, unanimously accepted by the convention, will be a weapon of sorts for right-wingers. The first quarry they expected to use it on: Reid Robinson, of the miners & smelters, leftist vice president of C.I.O...
...tour of duty in the Pacific, Captain Bonney assumed command of the local unit last July. He served as commanding officer of a submarine squadron for 18 months, and as deputy commander of Service Squadron 10, and he had a hand in directing the outfit known as "Nimitz' secret weapon...
...Yale offense will be solved by Prof. Harlow, if at all, only by the use of eleven ringers, each of whom is carrying a concealed weapon. . . IIf he is a genius, he now has a glittering opportunity to prove it, for otherwise Yale will sit down and eat Harvard one by one." November...