Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driving production authority" within the armed services to decide on weapon designs and get output going at top speed...
German rearmament seemed to horrify him at first, until he saw that it might be used as a bargaining weapon against the West. The European Army repels him because it confines Germany to military forces inside an international body. Proved anti-Nazi though he is, he talks like any Nazi general in his scorn of the French and Italians as soldiers. "The concept of a European army," says Schumacher, "is a fallacy, because six invalids cannot combine to make one athlete...
...while the embryo women's college was coming to its own, foreign inventors were busily at work on the first automobiles. The step from Honry Ford's car to the paddy wagon was a short one, and riot-quellers were soon provided with a new weapon. The Black Maria, in turn, hastened the discovery of the Eezy Meeny Miny Moe Ringleader Detection Technique...
Students rocked buses from side to side and gave trolley cars a thorough going-over, until the police arrived with a new weapon, tear gas bombs. The crowd retaliated with eggs, while eight from their midst were being arrested...
...Panmunjom last week the Communists accused the U.S. of "tearing up the Geneva Convention" in its treatment of war prisoners. It was not the first time the Communists had used the Convention as a propaganda weapon in ways which showed that they had at least read its text. Herewith a few questions & answers on the Convention, with special pertinence to the situation in Korea...