Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current phase of the cold war, one of the severest trials of strength with the adversary involves the ability to belt down toast after toast without falling over. The Russians have the advantage of longer familiarity with the chosen weapon, which is usually vodka...
...Florida's easygoing capital of Tallahassee (pop. 42,000), the new-found Negro weapon of the bus boycott proved to have a sharp and painful double edge last week. For five weeks, while Negroes refused to ride segregated buses (TIME, June 18), Negro and white civic leaders tried to work out a solution. Despite some broad concessions by the all-white city commission, e.g., first-come-first-served seating (but no side-by-side mixing of races), the Negroes held out doggedly for complete abolition of segregation−or nothing. Last week, acknowledging an all too effective 60% loss...
...decision came in for stinging criticism from within the ranks of the Supreme Court itself. Justice Tom Clark, joined by Justices Stanley Reed and Sherman Minton in dissent, wrote: "We believe the court's order has stricken down the most effective weapon against subversive activity available to the Government...
...month-old Negro boycott of Jim Crow buses in Montgomery, Ala., has taught the South a fact of economic life: in regions where most bus passengers are Negroes, the boycott is a powerful economic weapon. Last week in Montgomery a three-judge panel in Federal Court-all judges born and raised in Alabama-gave the boycott a sharp legal edge: the court ruled 2-1 that the city's Jim Crow bus seating violates the 14th Amendment and is unconstitutional...
...power is the prime delivery means for A-bombs and H-bombs. The atom knocked askew the comfortable old U.S. military idea of balanced forces. President Eisenhower wrenched the Air Force, Navy, Army roles and missions even more sharply by ruling that the atomic bomb should be the primary weapon both for retaliation in case of a big war, or for retaliation (on enemy supply bases, training areas, etc.) in a small war. Next, the guided missile whistled into the everyday language and planning of warfare; with it came the prospect of technological unemployment-and reduced funds-for the parts...