Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flock, started off their dreary afternoon by dropping the annual baseball game, 23 to 2. Ace Crimson moundsman Mickey "The Kid" Maccoby, known affectionately to his teammates as "the Weasel," retired the entire Poonie aggregation on one pitch, his famous "blackball." Explaining his use of this dreaded weapon, Maccoby said, "It matters not if you won or lost, but who you let play in your game...
...Court convicted Robert Carry and James Scalese, both 18, of Cambridge, on the "grave" charge of unprovoked assault and battery. Although doctors testified that a wound through Bachelder's right car resulted from a "sharp instrument," the Court could not find armed assault because of the absence of a weapon...
...brother Alphonse's house, penned his mother and two small nephews into one little room, and then, swinging madly, hacked them all to death too. The brother was away on an errand; when he walked into the quiet kitchen, Peter sprang at him with his bloody weapon, killed him, and went out to the street again...
...general's benediction on his integrity. Both Men find it hard to believe the general is real, but both find it easy to believe in him. He is an ideal which they must protect from any corruption, in order that the general may be able to remain a salvaged weapon of a lost battle after they are buried in the slime of newsprint...
Maccoby and Abrams stated last night: "We are sorry that the supposed funny men of the Lampoon do not realize that humor is a great panacea for the world's ills and a strategic weapon in the present fight against Communism. It is sad, indeed, that such a petty sense of property has caused the Lampoon to crawl sniveling and whining to the state department. It is a move that can only sour the nation's laughter. For the state department to take a hand in returning the bird would be nothing short of appeasement...