Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great part of my family is still in Santo Domingo, I am forced to ask you to keep this matter confidential as retaliation is the weapon that the despot uses in the most effective manner...
...During a night of drinking in Little Falls, N.J., grey-haired Mrs. Geneva Humphrey decided that her middle-aged husband was taking up with another woman. At 3 a.m., lacking any other weapon, she chased him down the street with the family automobile. Husband Hugh Humphrey, a butler by trade, dodged nimbly into a driveway, discovered too late it was a dead end. His wife drove in after him and squashed him to death between the bumper and a cellar door...
...citizens discovered last week that perhaps their most potent secret weapon of World War II was not radar, not the VT fuse, not the atom bomb-but a harmless little machine which cryptographers painstakingly constructed in a hidden room at Fort Washington...
...Pearl Harbor Committee blithely tossed away one still-secret U.S. weapon. George Marshall's letters to Governor Dewey (see above) mentioned that the U.S., with the help of the British, had decoded German as well as Japanese messages. George Marshall begged the Committee to cut out these references. The Committee refused...
...simple thing to Socialist Kathe Kollwitz. For her, it was simply a weapon with which to fight complacency. In 1891, at 24, she married a Berlin doctor, helped finance his clinic by selling harrowing studies of the kind of people who came to him as patients. Kaiser Wilhelm II called her stuff "the art of the gutter," in 1898 canceled a gold medal award which was to have been given her. She bitterly opposed World War I, and skillfully recorded its ugly aftermath in Germany. The Nazis stopped her from exhibiting, but she kept right on working, turned to sculpture...