Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Partisan Tubs." Dr. Nikolic's favorite weapon was the "Partisan Tubs." Some were plain gasoline tins, placed over fire and filled with lousy clothes and blankets...
Congratulations on your article "Yankee Scientist." Surely the leaders of this country should realize the need for fostering the development of science as a weapon of war and a bulwark against chaos in the peace to come...
...credit for it, told the House of Commons that he "concurred." Its acceptance altered, toughened British propaganda policy toward Germany. Both Churchill and Roosevelt repeatedly tried to soften the harsh threat by assuring the people of enemy countries that unconditional surrender would not mean their destruction. But the propaganda weapon they put in Hitler's hands could not be offset by qualification...
Sometimes the infantryman has trucks to transport him and vehicles for his heavier weapons. But often he still must slog along, up hill & down, through mud and through dust, toting all this new arsenal of weapons to the point of action, and then fight with them. He has to be lavish in his expenditure of physical effort under the worst of physical conditions. He also has to have guts to fight in situations where there is no possible safety for any man. And to fight effectively he has to be master of his weapon, and in the infantry today there...
...their normal laboratory salaries. They get no royalties, no bonuses, no medals. Their work is surrounded with fantastic secrecy. When they meet for group talks, the meeting place is first searched from cellar to attic for eavesdroppers. Clerical workers often do not know even the name of the weapon being developed in their own laboratory. A few supersecret projects are carried on in isolated, walled villages which no one is allowed to enter or leave except on special permits. For further protection, each scientist is usually assigned only part of a problem. Bush's group, not really a team...