Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Assault with a dangerous weapon-a beer bottle--and charges of disturbing the peace were racked up against two Business School students yesterday after an early-morning fracas outside the Yard. Delos McNutt 2B and William M. Bauman 2B face charges of assault and disturbing the peace respectively, in Superior Court...
...major attempt at standardization failed. Britain went ahead with plans to replace her old .303-caL, bolt-action Lee-Enfield rifle, which dates back, to the Boer War, with a lighter, faster, .280-cal. automatic model. U.S. experts had hoped the British would adopt a -3O-cal. weapon capable of firing the same ammunition as the U.S. Garand...
...from the hospital. Finally, Pern and President Farrell appeared together on the palace balcony. The crowd roared. An afternoon newspaper had printed pictures of the demonstrators sneeringly titled: "The shirtless ones [descamisados] who roam our streets." Now Perón caught up the sneer as a weapon, shouted that he wanted to clasp all such descamisados to his bosom. Ever since, Peronistas have celebrated the day of the descamisados' loyalty. It was Perón's March on Rome. Four days later, Juan and Evita were married in a Secret civil ceremony...
...Weapon Genetics. The new war birds are direct descendants of the three great inventions of World War II. Only one of the three-radar-came to full use in combat. The German V-2 rocket, a scientific triumph but a military failure, was developed too little; the atom bomb came too late. Both were held over as unfinished business for the next meeting of arms...
...halt will come "once the borrowed momentum of the science of the free world has been exhausted," Conant went on. He pictured Soviet control of science as a secret weapon working in favor of the free world...