Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perfect picture of a legislator, would turn over his chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the event of a Republican victory to Charles Eaton whose action in the field of foreign affairs extends to support of a measure authorizing the use of UNRRA funds as a political weapon...
James M. Sullivan '48 clipped a coupon in the CRIMSON last week, closed his eyes, used a pencil for his weapon, and hit the bullseye in the Meadows Football Quiz, thus winning an evening of dining and dancing for two at the Framingham nitery...
...that certain "military-political agents" (ostensibly in the U.S.) are stirring up war rumors in order to delay demobilization (actually, the U.S. is disarming at a far more rapid rate than Russia). Some were self-contradictory-such as his swaggering assertion that the atom bomb was merely a weapon to "intimidate weak nerves," but that it nevertheless constituted a threat to world peace.† Other things, such as his assertion that Russia was not planning to use Germany against the West, were made suspect by current Soviet policy and pronouncements. Three days after Stalin's statement, Pravda called...
...General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower disagreed. Said he: the atom bomb is the most destructive weapon in the history of warfare...
...another result of the raids-part of a nationwide drive-was not so pleasant. One car salesman was grabbed by an OPAster and threatened with a "slapper" (a blackjack-like weapon of thick pieces of leather sewn together-see cut) because OPAsters thought he was trying to get away. He was not actually hit, and was later released. But OPA's new treat-'em-rough tactics, reminiscent of the notorious "prohibition officer" hoodlums of the dry era, were bound to make new enemies...