Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nehru accepted Gandhi's policy of nonviolence and ably helped carry it out: he saw in it a magnificent and practical weapon against the British. But he would never accept the moral principle underlying nonviolence, i.e., that it is more blessed to be hit than to hit. (Nehru has been known to get off a political platform to cuff unruly listeners...
...months since the 26-million volt betatron was installed at the University of Illinois' College of Medicine in Chicago (TIME, Sept. 5, 1949), researchers have found it a valuable and promising weapon against some kinds of cancer. Twenty-three patients have been given a full course of treatments. Of these, reports the Illinois Division of the American Cancer Society, "a few are without evidence of the disease so far as can be ascertained...
...Wassermann test (1906) was a powerful weapon in the war against syphilis, but its many laboratory stages made it as slow and cumbersome as a medieval crossbow. What the medical warriors needed was a rifle. When Dr. (of Science) Reuben Leon Kahn took charge of Michigan's serology laboratory in Lansing 31 years ago, several starts had been made, but Kahn wanted to do better. On Thanksgiving eve of 1921, he recalls, "I walked home at a faster pace than usual. I wanted to tell my wife the exciting news: I had succeeded in bringing about spontaneous precipitation...
...were being drowned in a chorus of pleas for caution. The nation's pundits, from Walter Lippmann to Max Lerner and on down to Westbrook Pegler, urged the U.S. to go slow on televising public affairs. Judge Samuel Leibowitz feared that, without safeguards, TV might become "a sinister weapon of slander...
...spectacle of this society, all the springs of which are taut like the trigger of a weapon that one is about to fire, frightens me to the point of dizziness . . . I see as compensation for the misfortune of being born under this regime only dreams of arrogance and the hope of domination . . . Since I have come to Russia I see the future of Europe in black...