Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Murphy's refusal all but ended Harry Truman's hope of prompt action against malefactors in government. All week long he had searched in vain for two other cleanup men with the stature and prestige to make the commission an effective weapon against the charges of corruption. Without Tom Murphy, the search would beharder than ever...
Remote and ineffectual Don That dared attack my Chesterton, With that poor weapon, half-impelled, Unlearnt, unsteady, hardly held, Unworthy for a tilt with men-Your quavering and corroded pen; Don poor at Bed and worse at Table, Don pinched, Don starved, Don miserable; Don stuttering, Don with roving eyes...
...similar difference between all-out and half-speed mobilization exists in the armed services which order the weapons. When the economy is on all-out military production, the services know that they must set up priorities between one weapon and another. But in a half-speed mobilization, each procurement officer hopes that the material he wants can be taken out of the civilian sector of the economy, and the services do not get together on priorities. Last week, tired of waiting on the Pentagon, Wilson announced he would set up his own priority system for weapons. These difficulties will...
...swung into position over her. There was a hissing of air ducts; a small window in the big machine opened for a few minutes, then snapped shut. The patient had received one of the first series of treatments by the first "Cobalt Bomb," medical science's newest weapon against cancer...
Poised in his tailback spot, Kazmaier provides the explosive charge that makes the Princeton attack the fearsome weapon it is. The defending team is never sure what Kazmaier is going to do: run, pass or quick kick. He is effective at all three. His running has no pounding power, no blinding speed. But a trail of sprawling, frustrated tacklers attests to a swivel-hipped shiftiness, a ball-bearing glide that enable him to change pace or direction without losing stride. Judd Timm, the Princeton backfield coach, an ex-trackman at Illinois, describes Kazmaier's running style: "He runs...