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Word: weaponeering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have no vote. We have no rights," said an African Congress spokesman. "The boycott is our political weapon, and no law on earth can make us ride if we want to walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: No Law on Earth | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...version, called the F-106, will probably total 350. In addition, Convair is a big contractor in the Air Force's nuclear bomber project and the Atlas intercontinental missile. Furthermore, Convair also has its B58 Hustler, first big supersonic U.S. bomber, in the air as a possible interim weapon until missiles take over long-range bombardment duties. So far, Convair has orders for a test batch of 17 Hustlers, and has Air Force promises of solid quantity production if the plane proves as good as it looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: 1958 & Beyond | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...half extrovert." He can draw within himself for long, single-minded concentration on his people's problems, and then exert the force of personality and conviction that makes him a public leader. No radical, he avoids the excesses of radicalism, e.g., he recognized economic reprisal as a weapon that could get out of hand, kept the Montgomery boycott focused on the immediate goal of bus integration, restrained his followers from declaring sanctions against any white merchant or tradesman who offended them. King is an expert organizer, to the extent that during the bus boycott the hastily assembled Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Attack on the Conscience | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...three of the world's top soccer players took their turns for one minute of conversation. On the Budapest end were the players' wives, all with the same message: "Please come home! Everything will be all right." The Hungarian government was leaving no weapon untried in an effort to lure its topflight Honved soccer team back from a renegade jaunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Game Ending | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...sound failure was fixed and KTVT hit the NBC network with an extraordinary 18 minutes in which Commentator Tom Wayman's skillful questioning drew the story out of three convicts and the governor. Mumbling like Marlon Brando understudies, the convicts described their "diffewculties." Asked if he had a weapon, one protested without a break in gum-chewing rhythm: "I didn't have no weapon. I just had a knife and one of them .22-caliber things." Why was one inmate beaten up? "He was not too popular. He was classified as a rat if you wanna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: TV on the Spot | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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