Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good citizens of New Jersey are getting ready to deal Mayor Frank ("I Am the Law") Hague of Jersey City the worst blow of his undisputed 27-year career as boss of the state. The weapon: a new state constitution, up for ratification this year. If it is ratified, one of the three most notorious U.S. political machines* may be broken once...
Even the big business of pulverizing Aachen could not keep American whittling-fingers from gadgeteering. When Army engineers on the ridge outside the town found seven trolley cars of post-Tooner-ville design, they couldn't resist making their own V-weapon. A car was hauled to the tracks that led down to the city, packed like a Christmas stocking with captured shells, bullets, rockets, dynamite, TNT, hand grenades and ack-ack. On its sides G.I.s daubed a picture of Hitler, "Heil Heel," "Aachen Express...
When it was carried away to be melted down into "a vital war weapon," said Radio Tokyo, "the statue was given a serviceman's send...
...comforting side, 34-year-old Coach McKeever knows that he has a wicked weapon in his forward passing offense. Quarterbacks Joe Gasparella and Frank Dancewicz are equally deadly with their pitching arms up to 30 yards, already have completed 20 passes for 421 yards. Effective on the receiving end, besides fast-breaking Bob Kelly, are Halfback Achille ("Chick") Maggioli and two 6-ft.-4 freshmen ends, Bill O'Connor and Tom Guthrie...
...Lessner tells it, defeated Germany's main weapon was confusion. Overnight the Wehrmacht was dissolved ; not a single officer remained to offer Germany's "unconditional surrender." But veterans popped up again in strange places, such as the Brandenburg Canoe Club and the Association of Prussian Stamp Collectors. Nazi leaders vanished. The result of the long-awaited trial of German war criminals was: five Germans convicted of rape, four of cruelty to animals, five of reckless driving in congested areas. Countries ravaged by Hitler demanded the return of their looted property. They got it promptly: Austria received...