Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tennis was even better than his luck. His crackling serve seldom faltered. His backhand, a weak weapon all spring, was suddenly sure and sharp. Neither man made many errors; both scored their points with spectacular placements. Anderson scored the big ones, and he won in straight sets...
...said: "There is nothing intrinsically wrong in our department. Gordon hasn't divulged anything of consequence." Indeed, the generalizations of the early articles added up to less than the "revelation" promised by Editor Seltzer. But Seltzer felt sure that the series would give the Press a strong weapon in a campaign to change Ohio legislation that ties the hands of mayors and police chiefs against "entrenched practices" among the police. Gordon, whose previous reporting was limited to real estate, basked in his sudden celebrity. A sumptuous brunette, he said, recognized him from his pictures as he rode home...
Across the Communist empire the Red propaganda network chattered into action. "Good news has come from the Soviet Union," crowed East Germany's Neues Deutschland. "The most powerful weapon ever developed is in good hands." Communist diplomats haughtily brushed aside the latest Western proposals on disarmament (see FOREIGN NEWS), instead threatened U.S. allies and warned them to abandon U.S. bases. The new missile, said Moscow radio, "is a gigantic step forward that ought to cool off the hotheads...
...long-range ballistic missiles. The U.S. also knew that the big Red bird announced last week had not flown 5,000 miles but 3,500. The Kremlin announcement left unanswered a whole series of important questions: How many years will Russian industry need to make the missile an operational weapon? What kind of warhead has Russian technology produced for the bird? How precise...
Before the civil rights bill passed through the last stretch of the Senate foundry last week, the South's most famous Negro leader was drawing up plans for a Southwide campaign to make prompt use of the new weapon. Alabama's the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., hero of the history-making Montgomery boycott against Jim Crow buses, announced that his Southern Christian Leadership Conference (membership: 100-odd Negro leaders, mostly clergymen, in eleven states) is going to undertake a long-range drive to get Negro names on Dixie registration rolls...