Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first bill, a soft little item with a quarter of the tuition and the ever-present medical fee, will become a deadly weapon in the hands of the Bursar if not paid in time...
...Lord, I give him into Thy hand, as a captain putteth a sword into the hand of his sovereign, wherewith to lay waste his enemies. May he be a two-edged weapon in Thy hand and a spear coming out of Thy mouth, to destroy, and overcome, and pass over; and may the enemies of Thy Church fall down before him, and be as dung to fat the land...
...game, its symbol, the axe, is presented to the winning team by the Governor of California. Forged in 1899 in the shape of a medieval battle axe, this weapon has had a stormy career. One month after its unveiling on the Stanford campus it was captured by California and carried off to Berkeley. Many years later, when it was beng removed from the vault of an Oakland bank, it was seized by a group known as the immortal six and brought back to the Farm. Another theft returned it to Berkeley until 1930, when 21 stalwarts from Stanford stormed...
Almost as an afterthought the board took one more sortie into steel's economics. For years, Phil Murray's contracts with the gigantic U.S. Steel Corp. have pretty much determined the contracts signed by the rest of the industry. In effect this has given him the weapon of industrywide bargaining and a tremendous power to will over the country's steel mills...
Neither workers nor administrators seem to realize, Rakosi complained, "that labor discipline is a political weapon of prime importance." He revealed that wages had increased by 20%, despite a decrease in industrial productivity, a clear violation of "the supreme law of socialist work, that living standards can only be improved by increased productivity...