Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hrer." After a short spell of bad weather which grounded Allied reconnaissance and attack planes, Rundstedt struck. Crack German armored and infantry divisions drove in behind massive artillery barrages. German paratroops landed behind the U.S. lines, tried to snarl communications. Buzz-bombs, rockets and a new, undescribed V-weapon came over the lines...
David Zaslavsky, Pravda's journalistic revenge weapon, exploded again last week. This time his target was Author William L. ("Bill") White (They Were Expendable, Queens Die Proudly), who accompanied U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Eric A. Johnston on a tour of Russia last summer. Zaslavsky's blast was touched off by White's forthcoming book, Report on the Russians, excerpts from which appear in the December Reader's Digest. Sample passage...
...power runner in Navy's single-wing power attack, was knocked dizzy on the third play, went back to the bench until he could remember the signals. They were the two key men in Navy's expertly-executed trap plays, the team's best offensive weapon...
Like his readers, Mr. Punch refuses to admit that the rigors of a last-ditch war are anything more than necessary nuisances. His attitude is typified by the recent cartoon in which two men watch a new secret weapon-a buzzbomb with a loud speaker-flying over their heads. Says one: "I'm told that five seconds after the whirring sound stops it shouts a rude remark by Goebbels...
...this time, OPA is backed by WPB, whose potent weapon is its power to allocate cloth. WPB is ready to divert materials to manufacturers who will agree to turn out cheap clothing. They have already allocated 40,000,000 yards to make the infants' and children's clothes called for under the OPA plan...