Word: weaponeering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...busy telephone lines, and in every other way they could, the Eisenhower men were trying to turn the Taft weapon against the Taft machine. Their argument to delegates: Taft is trying to push you and everybody else around; this steamroller will disgust the voters so much that Taft can't possibly win in November...
Moraes found the Chinese Communists' propaganda about American bacteriological warfare in Korea to be "clever and not ineffective." Since the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan, he wrote, "Asian opinion has been particularly sensitive to the use of unorthodox weapons of war" and susceptible to the belief that the Americans are now using other Asians-the Communists in Korea -as guinea pigs for another horrible weapon. The Peking germ-warfare exhibition fills three large halls, with exhibits of parachuted cylinders allegedly full of germ-carrying insects, and maps showing where the Americans dropped pests 804 times...
...than affectionate attitude which has long characterized relations between the State Department [and the Trib], it may come as something of a surprise to readers to learn that the Trib was regarded by American diplomats . . . as one of their major assets, second only to Congress itself, as a bargaining weapon...
...into the groin of Actors' Agent Jennings Lang, whom Wanger then accused of trying to break up his marriage with Actress Joan Bennett. After Wanger threw himself on the court's mercy, the charge was reduced from assault with intent to murder to assault with a deadly weapon. He thus avoided a possibly unsavory trial which Hollywood dreaded, and got off with a four-month sentence. (Lang's recovery helped...
...other hand, says Menzel, seeing flying saucers is not the same thing as believing that they are space ships manned by intelligent beings from another planet. This science-fiction approach is like "explaining" lightning by calling it a weapon of Zeus: it merely supplants one mystery by another mystery. Calling the saucers space ships explains them, after a fashion, but it summons up the greater mystery of a godlike super-race living on Mars or Venus. "How simple is this sort of science," says Menzel, "and how wrong...