Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, with a national disaster threatening (and national elections approaching) King Umberto and Premier de Gasperi got the same idea. Each hopped into a plane, raced to Cagliari. Umberto won handily. He watched as locust-fighters deployed their last weapon: 62 drums of gammexane, a sort of new DDT, flown in from England for its first big-scale test. If this failed, nothing would stop the scourge save a miracle such as that related in Exodus 10:19: "And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into...
...Packing a country with immigrants when a majority of that country are opposed to it is clearly contrary to the principles of democracy and self-determination. The Arab League is against such mass immigration because it is a political weapon against the Arab people of Palestine...
...weeks ago John Lewis' threat was a gambit in the war of nerves of his soft-coal strike. Now it was something more: a weapon by which he might win unusual gains. The master of strike strategy had made his moves slowly and cleverly. He had been careful not to arouse an apathetic Government and an even more apathetic public against himself-until he could exert the maximum leverage of all that his threat implied...
...Crimson attack was bogged down for the whole game, and the lacrossemen's main offensive weapon was second defenceman George Wood who scored four times on solo dashes through the Tuft's defence. Bob Lange netted the other Crimson goal...
...from preventing aggression, the League had been unable as early as 1923 even to define it. Against Italy its only weapon, economic sanctions, had proved impotent in 1935. And in 1938, a comical figure instinct with tragedy, Haile Selassie, the Conquering Lion of Judah, stood before the Council at Geneva and heard his country voted a fair Italian conquest. From then on, death for the League was only a matter of creeping paralysis...