Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower promised other means toward "a just peace": i) a step-up in training and arming South Koreans, so they can bear the chief brunt of their defense, with U.N. forces in reserve; 2) a sharpening of psychological warfare "into a weapon capable of cracking the Communist front"; 3) no appeasement-"in the words of the late Senator Vandenberg, appeasement ... is only surrender on the installment plan...
...white man and the bewildering 20th century, the Mau Mau's blind fury could, if left unchecked, turn the Crown Colony of Kenya into another Malaya. Once pooh-poohed as mere "press exaggeration," the Mau Mau have already mutilated scores of whites and "loyal" blacks, with their favorite weapon, the panga-a long, machete-like knife...
...weapon behaved exactly as expected and forecast in many precise details by Dr. W. G. Penney, whose services were of the highest order...
...evident missionary zeal, Dr. Hammon was quick to point out that gamma globulin is far from being the weapon of final victory over polio (that is likely to be a vaccine). Its chief drawbacks: ¶It gives only "passive," short-lived immunity (five weeks' protection from an average dose). "Active," permanent immunity must still be developed by each individual in fighting off a mild attack by the polio virus-the kind of attack that often goes unnoticed or is mistaken for a cold...
Joseph Kramm's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, The Shrike is a compounded horror story. It is frightening as a possessive wife's conquest of a man who wishes desperately to escape her, and as a failure of inadequate and dangerous psychiatric techniques which become the woman's weapon...