Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drive" involving 11,000 army troops is undoubtedly exaggerated, but there is evidence that Batista is beefing up his operations against the rebels. The army is now establishing fortified posts deep in the Sierra Maestra. Men and arms for these posts are supplied by a new weapon in Batista's arsenal-British-made, armored helicopters, each reportedly carrying 14 men with full equipment...
...Unjust Incarceration. In 1944 he ran gallantly, although unsuccessfully, for Parliament on a platform of. roughly, "Remember Bannockburn." More or less in the spirit of things, he published, while lecturing at Aberdeen University, something called The Aidd Aberdeen Courant and Neo-Caledonian Spasmodical. But his most bravely brandished weapon is Lallans, a braw dialect of lowland Scots, little known today to Scots who are not classicists, or at least poets...
...Henri Alleg, 37, at an "interrogation" center at El Biar, in suburban Algiers, during June and July 1957. His torturers: paratroopers of the French army's 10th Division-later rebels against the Republic-to whom the use of torture has apparently come to be regarded as a "necessary" weapon against the Algerian nationalists...
...major weapon of massive resistance is a state law empowering Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. to close any school where integration takes place. If an integrated school is kept open by local authorities anyhow-as might happen in tolerant Arlington, partly a suburb of Washington, D.C.-the state must shut off state financial aid. Another weapon: under so-called "Little Rock bills," any school patrolled by federal troops is closed automatically, and the Governor can close all other schools in the district...
...Wall Street Henry Clay Alexander, chairman of J. P. Morgan & Co., called for a tax cut of $5 billion or more as the real spur to economic activity. Such a cut, said Alexander, "is the course of prudence in today's circumstances. Our economy is as much a weapon in the struggle for survival as our rockets and our missiles...