Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current crisis, the State Department suspects that Israel's controversial dam is a bargaining weapon in Israel's covetous designs on the waters of the Jordan River-at the expense of Arab neighbors. U.S. policy has tried to head off this crisis by backing a TVA-like development of the Jordan valley for the benefit of both Jews and Arabs. Last week suave Eric Johnston, onetime child prodigy of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and currently the president of the Motion Picture Association, was going from capital to capital in the Middle East as Eisenhower's personal...
Chamberlin and Reischauer also conflicted over disposition of anti-Communist North Korean prisoners. Reischauer felt that the Communists misunderstood the prisoners' wishes. "To them, all common people were on their side. This violent refusal to return is most embarrassing to the Reds, and a potent propaganda weapon...
FROM a midevening rendezvous at a Havana bar frequented by American tourists, I was brought by a devious route, with several stops and three changes of cars, to a house where a man with a Tommy gun stood guard at the door and a machine-gunner crouched over his weapon at the head of the stairs, covering the hallway. I was shown into a small, book-lined room. In a moment, in strode a trim, greying man wearing dark trousers and a white sport shirt. He walked with erect carriage and springy step. We shook hands, and he laid...
...Microbiologist Selman Waksman announced that German scientists have taken the sting from his drug, actinomycin, turned it into a potential weapon against: 1. Polio...
...Empire, scholarly, pipe-puffing Air Marshal Tedder said: "I am one of those who believe that for some four or five years after . . . 1945, aggression was averted by the U.S. atomic bomber force. I do not think that the fact that the Russians have now developed their own atomic weapons really lessens that deterrent effect; the fearful counterthreat is still there . . . Provided that the free nations make it clear without a shadow of a doubt or vestige of bluff that they are ready and able to deliver the atomic weapon and face that ultimate issue, I believe that sanity will...