Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Davis strode forward to build his case against Harry Truman. Had the President seized the steel plants under authority of any statute? He had not. He had, in fact, declined to use the Taft-Hartley Act, Congress's remedy for heading off important labor-management disputes. "Having that weapon at hand, any effort on his part to forge a new and different weapon only aggravates the claim of usurpation which we are compelled to make. There was no statutory framework for this seizure. What then...
...raising more of a rumpus than ever existed before their arrival. They did. Most disturbances are terminated by the apprehension of those who are causing the trouble, which in this case was a small number, not by ostentatious brutality. Mr. Verba's argument that force was the most suitable weapon with which to disperse the rally is refuted by the fact that a second disturbance occured almost two hours after the first. The excitement ended only when the students became board...
Dodd stood little chance of getting his command back. What would happen to General Colson, who had given the Reds so handsome a propaganda weapon with his strange acknowledgment of "instances of bloodshed," was not yet known...
Some of the militiamen in Orwell's outfit were mere children, all were badly trained, few knew how to fire a rifle. Orwell, who had once been a policeman in Burma, was appalled when he was handed his weapon, an 1896 German Mauser with a corroded barrel. Assigned to a section on the Aragon front, his ragged company of 100 went into the trenches with twelve overcoats among them. Before long, Orwell had learned the basic fact of infantry life: boredom. Wrote he: "A life as uneventful as a city clerk's and almost as regular. Sentry...
...wants to read one of Vanzetti's letters to his class: a reactionary trustee sniffs redness in his politics. Trouble mounts when his wife's old football-playing beau turns up, and the professor feels forced to show the redness in his blood. With liquor for a weapon, the male animal slays the Milquetoast in him; and in a very funny drunk scene, he elects to hold his mate-as swans and bull elephants do -by fighting for her. He does hold her-if only because the football player couldn't be more anxious...