Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leathernecks ("What's your name? Where's your home? How long have you been in the service?"), found one who didn't know his rifle number and chided him (it's a military notion that a soldier who knows his rifle number will treat the weapon as a friend and never cast it aside...
Every general has his pet dicta. One of Almond's favorites is "no tanks to the rear," a logical sequence of his conviction that a soldier must use every weapon he has to the uttermost to kill the foe and save his own skin. "The place of the tank," he explains, "is at the front destroying the enemy. If it goes back, even though for gasoline, we lose two things: firepower and the morale of the foot soldier. The foot soldier moving up can well ask himself, 'What the hell?' if a tank passes him going...
...pamphlet, he traced the history of the Communist movement with the hope of substituting fact for hysteria. "The non-Communist world," he said "must remember that it can increase or reduce the potency of this mighty Soviet weapon. It must renounce panic because frightened people are not capable of making intelligent decisions...
...most efficient U.S. shipper. Other shippers make no bones about their dislike of him because he 1) accepts no Government subsidies ("I prefer to earn my own money"), and 2) has fought long & hard against the conferences by which most U.S. shippers' rates are set. His most effective weapon to get business is to undercut the conference rates. Said one conference shipper: "He's the smartest damn guy in the whole business. You can hardly get a lawyer to go against him, because he's usually right...
Consequences. In Truth or Consequences (formerly Hot Springs), N.Mex., police learned that Charles R. Bailey, who attracted their attention when he grabbed a nightclub microphone and started to sing, was wanted one place & another for car theft, breaking & entering, burglary, carrying concealed weapons, carrying a loaded weapon on a Government reservation...