Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...libel such groups as Negroes, Jews, Catholics. Only three states (Illinois, Massachusetts and Indiana) ban all libels against racial or religious blocs. Reason: most states have wisely decided that a group libel law can be as dangerous a restriction on freedom of press & speech as it is a convenient weapon to shut up hatemongers. Newsmen have generally opposed such laws for the same reason. But last week the U.S. Supreme Court decided otherwise...
...prospects of bettering themselves, thousands of Negroes have turned in sheer hopelessness to drink, drugs and crime. In the noisome slums that disfigure the outskirts of Cape Town, 200,000 Cape Colored live in fear of the Skolly Boys, a gang of Negro gangsters whose favorite murder weapon is a bicycle chain. In Johannesburg, it is the "Russians" who terrify white & black alike, chopping their victims with axes and leaving the bodies to be carried away by the night soil removers. In the Rand goldfields, police estimate, there are three murders every two days; in the concrete "locations" where...
Speaking before the New England Congress of the National Federation of Catholic College Students, Budenz said that the decision to use the libel weapon was made before he left the Communist Party...
...ways-not necessarily for what she said. But even the other candidates and their spokesmen on the program seemed to go for this Kefauver. Said Bachelor Dick Russell: "Kefauver's chief accomplishment is that he outmarried himself to such an extent. His wife is his most dangerous secret weapon ... If I were running with Mrs. Kefauver, I'd be glad to accept second place." Ohio's Representative Clarence Brown, on hand to speak for Candidate Taft, beamed fondly across the political fence. Said he: "Now I'm almost convinced that I should support Kefauver-Nancy, that...
...shooting at each other. Employers reported an abrupt end to such familiar nuisances as wildcat strikes and absenteeism. Cubans remembered Batista. In the past, he had used castor oil, midnight arrests or gunplay; his soldiers had ruthlessly put down abortive rebellions. He could afford to be economical with the weapon of terror. "It is my destiny to make bloodless revolutions," he bragged-and added a significant qualification: "The only blood spilled will be that of those who oppose...