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Word: weaponeering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said the President of the U.S.: "The Soviets now possess a stockpile of atomic weapons of conventional types and we must furthermore conclude that the powerful explosion of August 12th last was produced by a weapon, or a forerunner of a weapon, of power far in excess of conventional types...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Trapeze | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...hand, Defense Mobilizer Arthur S. Flemming said flatly in his quarterly report: "Soviet Russia is capable of delivering the most destructive weapon ever devised by man on chosen targets in the U.S." But Secretary of Defense Wilson, at his press conference, cast doubt on a suggestion that the Russians had a thermonuclear bomb "in droppable form." He added: "It may be that within a year they could drop a bomb, but they couldn't wage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: The Ditherers | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology, emphasized the danger of radio as a "weapon of mischief" yesterday in a discussion of Orson Welles' famous 1938 broadcast of "Invasion from Mars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AllportSays TV, Radio Potentially Dangerous | 10/15/1953 | See Source »

...base. Sometimes Americans lose their tempers; whether they are right or wrong in any particular ruckus, they are usually shipped home. One American was shot and wounded by a Saudi with the victim's own gun. The American was reprimanded for having a weapon, and deported; the shooter was admonished and set free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Life in Purgatory | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

Waitress' Day. In Kenosha, Wis., when Milton Hall, 23, entered her lunchroom and threatened her with a pistol, Waitress Margaret Gresham talked him into pocketing the weapon, treated him to a cup of coffee, then called the police, who promptly came and arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

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