Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Should we end nuclear tests? No. If we have a weapon equal to that of our enemies, they will be afraid to use it, as Hitler was afraid to use gas in the last...
...upsetting Jim Shakespeare, Weld won what is probably the greatest victory of his career. He beat the stylish Southerner, 6-4, 1-6, 7-5, as he broke Shakespeare's service in the twelth game of the third set. Strong, steady baseline strokes were his main weapon...
Journalist Nathan's most effective weapon was not a butcher's knife but a stylist's stiletto. With malice toward some, he dubbed Noel Coward's Design for Living "a pansy paraphrase of Candida"; dismissed T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party as "bosh, sprinkled with mystic cologne." Maxwell Anderson, jeered Nathan, "enjoys all the attributes of a profound thinker save profundity." Nor did Nathan spare his fellow critics: Said he: "Impersonal criticism is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful. Show me a critic without prejudices...
...members, and an arm of the many-limbed National Education Association-last week had issued a call to arms: "Now is the time for all members of the profession to rise up and make forceful protests against irresponsible and dishonest reporting on secondary education." Targets: TIME and LIFE. Weapon: "To question the continuation of subscriptions to the LIFE and TIME publications in your school...
...steel, aluminum and foam-plastic Armalite rifle that weighs only 6.85 lbs. (v. 9.5 lbs. for the old Garand) and serves as everything from a long-distance sniper rifle to a triple-mounted machine gun. The Air Force has designated a version of the rifle as its survival weapon, and it is being tested as a possible NATO weapon...