Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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French flag still flies over the gates. The rising opposition of young Moslem activists in Morocco found the U.S. bases a convenient weapon to use against King Mohammed V's moderate regime. "Aggression and exploitation," cried a Moroccan trade-union weekly. Egged on by extremists, the Moroccan government forbade U.S. ships to land gear, even set up roadblocks near the Atlantic coast in case U.S. ships should try sneak unloading of trailer trucks...
...game was the first played in Yale Bowl, and the first in which a new weapon--the lateral pass--was used against the Crimson. But Haughton was prepared. The defense spread out over the field, leaving only three men in the line...
...brought Scientist Lawrence a new role as an elder science statesman. He advised the Government on atomic energy, served on numerous missions, received a long string of honors. Lawrence was one of the U.S. scientists who backed the AEC view that fallout from nuclear-weapon testing is not critically dangerous. Last year he backed continued U.S. nuclear testing in a report to President Eisenhower that H-bombs can be made 96% "cleaner." The Radiation Laboratory flourished under his direction, built a bevatron for advanced particle research. Lawrence became chiefly an organizer, a humorous, vigorous prodder who steamed around Berkeley encouraging...
...foreign aid has come a long way from the postwar days when the simple criterion was to reward friends and to deny foes. The money doled from the U.S. till last week, to an odd set of customers, still had the same general purpose as the weapon once known to Europeans as "the cavalry of St. George."* But on both sides of the cold war, foreign aid was now devoted to far more complex purposes...
Cooper's fist clinched around his ultimate weapon: a battered copy of the Southern Manifesto. Gore's refusal to join 19 other Dixie Senators in this 1956 blast against civil rights made him a "traitor to the South," charged Cooper, who swore that his first official act would be to sign it.* Cheered by Orval Faubus' landslide just across the Mississippi, Cooper's rednecks promised to prove that only stout segregationists can now win primaries below the Mason-Dixon. But at vote-counting time in the as-good-as-elected Democratic primary late last week, Albert...