Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...priest, then they cut off his mother's hands, and then they ordered us to follow them. What could we do?" In Albania her eight-year-old girl and five-year-old boy were taken from her and a rifle was thrust into her hands. Tapping the weapon, the rebel capetdnias said: "This is your husband, this your child." Kleoniki was forced into the battle of Vitsi. She deserted and got back to her village-without her children. In Fourka Konitsa, the villagers learned in advance of the guerrillas' abduction plans. They hid the children in ditches...
...showing whiter than usual. "Certainly you aren't conceited enough to expect the honor of being chastised by my lord in person. He has better things to do. But he'll not deny me that pleasure. I'll satisfy you on horse or afoot with any weapon you please. Or make...
Samuel Gompers in 1900 was forging another weapon to counteract the power of Big Business. His American Federation of Labor was growing. At the turn of the century, men were beginning to ask Gompers what his goal was. Where would he stop? Gompers had a prophetic answer which he was soon to deliver in a speech at Portland, Ore.: "We want more, we demand more, and when we get that more, we shall insist upon again more and more and even more, until we get the full fruition of our labor...