Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Billy Mitchell. At week's end he put out a statement "to clarify my intentions in taking the action I did," in which he reiterated the Army's claim that it ought to have its own intermediate-range ballistic missile. "Both technically and tactically this weapon is very similar to artillery," he said, "and very dissimilar to aircraft." Nickerson's attorney, Robert K. Bell, former law partner of Alabama's Senator John Sparkman, implied that during the trial he might well grill high defense officials, from Charles Erwin Wilson on down...
...cabinets, has also been an unwanted feature of the Fourth Republic. Cabinets give up too soon, taking any parliamentary defeat as a rejection of their whole administration, and resign before the Assembly actually votes no-confidence. Also, votes of no-confidence and censure have again developed into common weapons, and are not the exceptional measures they were intended to be. Cabinets have used the "informal vote of confidence," i.e., a threat of resignation in the absence of parliamentary approval on policy, as a frequent weapon rather than an occasional defense...
...Western Front is collapsing under the blows of the Normandy invasion forces, but Von Puckhammer shores up his own dwindling sector as if he were the Führer's one-man secret weapon. When he rounds up a few Maquis and has them shot beside open graves, the general touches his hat and murmurs: "May God have mercy on them, the mercy which we could not show them." "He's got nice manners," thinks Horlacher drily...
Phil Charat, initiated into the foil fraternity in France, has been out of action for several years. After a brief reorientation session this fall, Charat was convinced to abandon his original weapon and convert temporarily to epee, where he will probably start this afternoon...
...wife, bearing a sturdy umbrella, plus Joy's younger sister and brother. Confronting the steamed-up Stewarts, Colin Wilson had good reason to blanch: not 15 miles away he had a wife and son. With no further pleasantries, Mrs. Stewart fell to pummeling Philosophy Collector Wilson with her weapon, while the others tried to drag Joy from the villain's premises. They screamed at Joy: "You will go to hell!" Their efforts were futile. Wilson was unbruised, Joy unbound, when bobbies swooped down on the domestic scene. Crimson with anger, John Stewart offered Wilson's diary...