Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...influence and legitimate checking up on a Government bureau by a Senator is admittedly hard to draw. Nevertheless, when a Senator asks a pay raise for an official and asks the official for action on a tax case, he certainly opens the door to suspicion-and he puts a weapon in the hands of the rival party...
...Communist countries which supply her armies, for a breakoff of truce talks at Panmunjom and a resumption of the war in Korea. tj Russia, now that it is itself making atom bombs (and thus can no longer accuse Western "warmongers" of being the only ones to make the dread weapon), had to create some other dastardly form of warfare which it could say was a Western monopoly. This is a British Foreign Office theory...
...canny Swiss, advised by Avalanche Expert André Roch, plan to take advantage of this previous British reconnaissance. They will also attack the problem with a new, semisecret weapon: an ingenious "third lung," designed at Zurich and perfected by Swiss watchmakers. Contrary to widespread opinion, there is nothing unsporting about using oxygen, though some British mountaineers might consider it "going soft." Heretofore, it has simply been considered impractical or impossible to haul the added burden. The new lightweight (22 Ibs.) Swiss lung, complete with plastic mouthpiece, is worked by the climber's own breath, which releases the precious oxygen...
...current Communist jargon, means corrupt capitalist. But last week, as Red China's tiger hunt (TIME, March 17) screamed into new heights of shrill persecution, the quarry seemed less like vicious beasts of the jungle than treed and terrified house-cats. Chinese Communism has developed a new weapon to rout out it's bourgeois enemies, a weapon unthought of by less imaginative dictatorships: trial by sound-truck. Like baying hounds at the foot of a tree, Communism's sound-trucks last week planted themselves in the streets outside of tradesmen's shops and called their "crimes...
Perhaps the only weapon available to oppose such repression is moral indignation. This cannot ensure the desired results as effectively as a flotilla of battleships could in times past, but it is one that nations obsessed with national appearances are bound to fear. The code devised during the Freedom of Information Convention would, if passed, destroy this weapon, for its broadness and restrictive tone would lend any sort of repression the tinge of international acceptance...