Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into Hellfire. Demoralized by these tactics-"Our best weapon," said one Israeli, "was sheer effrontery"-the bulk of the Egyptian army in Sinai collapsed like a pricked balloon. "The first night of operations," Ben-Gurion told the Knesset, "we took Kuntilla after twenty minutes of resistance, Ras el Naqb near Elath after a brief engagement and Quseima after forty-five minutes . . ." Only once, at the crucial road junction of Abu Aweigila on the Jerusalem-Ismailia highway, did Egyptian armor and artillery succeed in stalling the Israeli advance (TIME, Nov. 12). Tough Moshe Dayan, dashing about Sinai in a command...
...invaders (a proposal the U.S. called "unthinkable"), and talked of using "force to crush the aggressors" in the Middle East. 'Bulganin went further: he asked Britain how it would feel "if she herself had been attacked by more powerful states possessing every kind of modern destructive weapon" and added that "there are countries now" that could do the job from a distance by "means such as rocket technique...
...truck loaded with soldiers and rifles stopped in a Budapest street beside a band of shouting civilians. "Go ahead take them," a soldier said. "No!" said a man who seemed to be their leader "Our weapon is the flag." Behind him fluttered Hungary's red, white and green banner...
Moreover, said Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard Libby last week, the latest U.S. H-bomb tests have helped to develop a weapon with a lower rate of fallout contamination...
...Sheriff Duncan Harper is too highprincipled to let anything illegal alone. So Bootlegger Tallant fights him. His weapon: Beckwith Dozer, a Negro stubborn enough to demand his "rights" and supple enough to let the embattled white men think they are using him. Tallant intends only to discredit the sheriff by forcing him to defend an "uppity" Negro. But the design gets out of hand when Tallant is shot by a shady associate. Dozer is suspected, and Sheriff Harper, trying to drive Dozer to safety in the next county, is killed when a slashed front tire blows...