Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inextricably caught, defended by credulous friends (Supreme Court Justices Felix Frankfurter and Stanley Reed testified for him as character witnesses), he had fought his accuser with every legal weapon. He denied conspiring with Chambers, denied stealing State Department secrets for the Russians. The evidence was too overwhelming. Although one jury disagreed, a second convicted him of perjury. In January 1950, he heard the judge pass sentence of five years. (He will be eligible for parole after serving 20 months...
...aircraft or fired from offshore submarines. Saboteurs could also release such mists, and germs could be used against domestic animals and growing crops as well as against people. But the booklet points out that nearly all infectious diseases can be prevented or cured. BW, it says, "is a special weapon for use against special targets. No kind of biological warfare could kill or sicken every person in a large area or city...
...week, in a 30-page booklet entitled What You Should Know About Biological Warfare, the federal Civil Defense Administration gave an answer designed to take much of the mystery and Sunday-supplement terror out of the subject. CDA's main point: disease germs are valuable as a military weapon, and may be used in war, but no man-made pestilence is likely to sweep the whole...
Spiked Shoes. In Bellefontaine, Ohio, Mrs. Helen McCullough, charged with jabbing the heel of her slipper into her husband's face, was booked for "assault & battery with a deadly weapon...
Though the HLU poll was more carefully constructed, it seemed to take the form of a political weapon designed to repudiate the YP poll, rather than that of an impartial gauge of public opinion. In effect the HLU was rebuking the YP's for swearing, because swearing sounds like hell...