Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marines jubilantly talked about a new weapon of war. Since World War II, they have experimented with 'copters for amphibious assaults; the Korean experiment is an imaginative adaptation of this plan. If trucks had been used for last week's job, 175 would have been required, and the men would have arrived tired and shaken up after jouncing over rough roads. As it was, they disembarked fresh and alert...
With the General Election less than two weeks away, Labor, behind in the public opinion polls, was fighting hard, and with any weapon that came to hand. In the shadow of 900-year-old Norwich Cathedral, Labor M.P. John Paton thumped out a message to his constituents: "Tory policy means war." In suburban London, another Socialist denounced the Tory candidate: "Nothing but a bloody warmonger." Labor placards in grimy, bomb-battered Liverpool proclaimed: "A third Labor government or a third World...
...explosion occurred in a little house with a corrugated aluminum roof in Caracas' eastern suburbs. Two revolutionaries were assembling a bomb from dynamite and steel pipe when the weapon, set off unintentionally, killed both. At Columbus Day ceremonies next day, someone tossed a bomb, hidden in a bouquet, at members of the junta: Lieut. Colonels Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez and their civilian satellite, President Germán Suárez Flamerich. Military policemen quickly scooped up the bomb, but it was a dud anyway. Twenty-four hours later, Llovera...
...significant to note that the varsity defeated Army without its biggest offensive weapon, tailback Dick Clasby. Clasby, who inherited the load when Carroll Lowenstein was drafted, was limited to holding for extra-point attempts. However, he got a chance to rest his bruised hip and should be ready to go next week...
Atatürk and his followers actually considered the lack of roads a defense weapon. Turkish defense thinking prior to 1947 was sometimes described as the "Gallipoli mind." Widely separate cadres of troops were assigned to defend mountain passes and strategic positions. They had their orders-plant the flag on the hilltop and stick until every man died. If there were no roads, the thinking ran, then the enemy would have a harder time moving than the defenders would have defending. The new military equipment and tactical conception the U.S. brought to Turkey in 1947 demanded that the Gallipoli approach...