Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like José Espejo, chief of the General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.), might have made use of the legend for their own purposes were the C.G.T. a real union movement. The fact is, the C.G.T. is a tightly disciplined political party completely dominated by Perón. As a weapon in Perón's hand, the Evita legend can protect him against the enemies of the regime; critics of Perón can be shouted down by cries of treason against Evita. Whatever the loss of his wife has meant to Juan Perón, the loss...
...toward the river, but the killer had overtaken her, clubbed her to death with the butt of his rifle. If money was his objective, as it possibly was, the killer had overlooked 5,000 francs ($14) in Lady Drummond's handbag. In the river, police found the murder weapon: a U.S. Army M1 carbine...
...fractions of an ounce of B1 trickled out at the other end. Williams and the Merck-men tackled the job of synthesis, and in 1936 succeeded in making B1 easily and cheaply from simple organic compounds. Merck went into big-scale production. Result: medicine at last had a weapon to vanquish beriberi...
Decked out in his fanciest uniform, bloated Hermann Göring was a crashing symphony in green, armed with a spear. Playing Germany's clown prince of the hunt, Reichsjägermeister Göring used to lay down his obsolete weapon, take up a rifle and waddle to a platform erected in the forest. There, he would wait for his beaters to maneuver deer within near-pointblank range. Out among the trees, deep-throated horns would toot calls signaling each stage of the hunt (the sighting of a stag, the shot, the finding of the carcass). Because...
...Council of Economic Advisers, Dr. Edwin G. Nourse had a simple definition of the group's duties: hold an economic thermometer under the nation's tongue and report the facts dispassionately. But in 1949 Nourse quit, saying that the council was fast becoming just another political weapon of the Democratic Administration. Since then, under Chairman Leon Keyserling, the board has often seemed to check up on the nation's economic health by taking Harry Truman's pulse...