Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...containers hit the ground) by white phosphorus igniters. A napalm bomb can cover up to half an acre with fire burning at 3,000° F. U.S. airmen and G.I.s love it; there is plenty of evidence that the Reds hate and fear it more than any other weapon in the U.S. ground-support arsenal...
...requirement that Truman has sometimes ignored. Amendments to the existing labor legislation should cover such loopholes as the "sickness' ruse. And unions denied the right to strike must be assured that management will also be curbed from taking advantage of labor's inability to use its most effective weapon...
...Pope Innocent III had banned the crossbow in the 16th Century," as TIME erroneously paraphrased it. Unlike TIME researchers, Post editors know that Innocent III died in 1216. Post editorial said: "In the time of the Crusades, Pope Innocent III banned the crossbow as an inhumane weapon for Christians to be killing other Christians with. In the 16th Century the French complained that the British used the inhumane weapon known as gunpowder...
Rosie O'Donnell was not suggesting policy decisions. Said O'Donnell: "It is a United Nations war, and we cannot decide things unilaterally. All I know is that if we were allowed to go after them with all our strength, including the ultimate weapon, we could put the lash on them. That's the only language they seem to understand." Newsmen promptly demanded: Did he mean the atomic bomb? Said O'Donnell: "There are several good targets in China which would be suitable for attack with atomic bombs. We could deliver those attacks...
...held up to universal contempt the courage and fighting qualities of the gallant American soldier and the leadership of his officers . . . The identical attack of which you speak was carried in another periodical six weeks ago [the New York Herald Tribune], and was used by the Soviet as a weapon against the United States in the forum of the United Nations and was widely carried in the Soviet press...