Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain finally felt the lash of Adolf Hitler's long-threatened secret weapon last week and found it much like its sponsor: nasty, unpredictable, incapable of achieving final victory...
...that the Germans have used their secret weapon--a winged bomb, pilotless and probably pet-propelled--the British are tackling the problem of countering it with far more confidence than they had when they set about the job of finding an answer to the night-bombing threat of four years ago." N. Y. Times, June...
...gear: it's worn (and obviously this isn't a posed picture), but it's all there and in good shape. A 'demoralized' soldier gets rid of his equipment the first thing. (You should have seen the Eyties.) He's carrying his weapon in the easy way you associate with experience and skill...
Based on studies of blood plasma carried on by Dr. Edwin J. Cohn of the Med School, a new methid for treating measles has been revealed, consisting of the injection of certain antibodies that destroy the germ of measles. Experiments with this now weapon against measles have been carried on in many places where epidemics of the disease have arisen...
Spaatz knew already that the time was strictly limited for using his weapon the way he wanted to use it; the day of invasion had been set. Quietly Sally Bagby put through a call to Jimmy Doolittle. Over the phone (equipped with a secrecy scrambling device) Tooey talked in low tones; the bombers were ready. A weather report came in. It was better than it had been for days, but still not too good. Bad icing conditions were forecast at 5,000 feet over the rendezvous area...