Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same policy of passing the buck that is crippling the overall defense against inflation. Tomorrow's editorial will discuss the role of the most powerful weapon against the rising cost of living: the government's power...
...black-bearded pfc. took up the story: "The Chinks hit the driver in the front machine, and that stopped the column. Everybody got rattled. As soon as somebody fell, the Chinks would grab his weapon. Somebody hollered 'There's one!' and I fired. But it was only a tree. Somebody hollered 'Let's get out of here.' I turned around and the world seemed to explode at my feet. Blood gushed everywhere. I knew I had had it then and there...
...NATO post knows; as does Winston Churchill, that Britain is no longer the leading naval power. The U.S. is also especially conscious of the fact that the Royal Navy has had nothing like the experience of the U.S. Navy in the use of sea powers' capital weapon: the aircraft carrier task force. The British see the submarine as the great naval threat from Russia, and in debate Churchill emphasized submarines.Churchill pointed out that Britain had sunk 525 German submarines, compared to 174 for the U.S. He said: "I do not think that our country ought to have fallen...
...sabre is the roughest of the fencing weapons. Touches are allowed not only with the point, but also with the cutting edge of the weapon anywhere above the waist; five touches win. The sabre has meant the difference so far and will again at Yale...
...turbojets that are just coming into production. None of the new heavies will be in production for some time. In the meantime, the far-ranging B-36, speeded up by four additional jet engines (which give it more than 435 m.p.h. at 45,000 ft.), will remain the U.S. weapon for intercontinental missions...