Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drowsy Sunday, reporters filed hurriedly past the guards at the Atomic Energy Commission building in Washington for a special announcement. The announcement was muffled in the AEC's usual cautious language, but its import was still overwhelming: the U.S. has succeeded in a test explosion of a hydrogen weapon in mid-Pacific...
...Navy: battalion-size assault landings calculated to extinguish the defensive heresies picked up in combat, and to remind troops of the appetite for headlong attack expected of them in their kind of war. The discouraging stalemates and attrition of Korea, in a word, had only whetted the most gleaming weapon the Marine Corps carries when it is panoplied for war: the quietly arrogant certainty that U.S. Marines are the world's best and noblest fighting men, that they always have been and always will...
...works these days in his big, soft-carpeted office at Marine Headquarters, which stands symbolically above and aloof from the Pentagon, Marine Commandant Lem Shepherd takes a flinty satisfaction in the heft of the weapon at his hand. He has grown up with the "modern" Marine Corps and few of its officers have been so intimately involved in its struggles-both in the field and the congressional committee room...
National Home. For half a century before that, Weizmann was Zionism. His vibrant, eloquent voice, lowered for emphasis, cutting deftly through details to the essential, was one of the greatest one-man propaganda instruments in history. He turned even his genius for chemistry into a weapon for Zionism. In 1916, when British shells began falling short of the target for want of acetone, a basic component in manufacturing gunpowder, Weizmann, working night & day, discovered a new way of producing acetone in quantity. Gratefully, wartime Prime Minister David Lloyd George proffered personal honors; Weizmann graciously declined and said: "There is nothing...
Wingback John Ederer, whose passing gives the Crimson a valuable surprise weapon, spent considerable time yesterday sharpening his aerial prowess. Meanwhile, the defensive unit, spearheaded by junior linebackers Bob Hardy and Ronnie Messer, got its last look at simulated Princeton plays...