Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cuba's fanatic, poorly armed rebels last week tried to smash President Fulgencio Batista with the ultimate weapon of civilian revolutions: the general strike. But Batista, a tough, wilier strongman than such fallen dictators as Argentina's Perón or Venezuela's Pérez Jiménez, saw the blow coming, prepared well, warded it off with hardly a bruise...
...since 1874 except William Woods (1880-87), James Byrnes (1941-42), and some of those presently sitting. And during last year's fight on civil-rights legislation, the Congress even overrode bitter Southern opposition to give the courts limited powers to enforce voting rights with the criminal-contempt weapon...
...union was weak, he argued long and loud for industry-wide bargaining, hoping thus to get more prestige-and members-for his union. Now, says Reuther, "there is no way they can force us to bargain on an industry-wide basis." Industry-wide bargaining would cost Reuther his major weapon in wage negotiations: the "key bargaining" tactic by which he singles out one company for attack, then uses that settlement as a pattern for the others. In 1955, at the last auto bargaining, Reuther's whipsaw worked to perfection and wrecked the industry's informal agreement to hold...
...gang's turf by another gang-or the stealing of another's property or girl, even an insult-may bring on councils of war, choice of a battleground, scouting forays. Finally comes the "rumble," a bloody combat with knives, machetes, guns, rugged garrison belts and-a favorite weapon -skin-slashing automobile-radio aerials stolen from any handy...
Newsmen who try to overcome the judiciary's traditional ban on photographing trial action risk a charge of contempt of court. Last week, after an Omaha court let press and TV photographers shoot at will, the familiar legal weapon was turned against the judge himself...