Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Demilitarization of Germany-reinforced by an international agreement that no power would keep nuclear weapons in German territory. ¶Abandonment of nuclear weapon tests...
Last week Governor Averell Harriman vetoed the bill. It could, he ruefully concluded, "give to troublesome delinquents a weapon against their parents which they would not hesitate...
Even if America's past, including especially Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," presents precedents for the Montgomery boycott, the deeper inspiration for the current campaign is clearly India's Gandhi. For here was a man who dramatized the technique of non-violent civil disobedience and used it as a weapon against three powerful forces: first in the fight against racial intolerance in the Union South Africa from 1906 to 1915; then in the struggle against the British which lasted until independence in 1947; and finally, until his assassination in 1948, in an heroic and saintly attempt to bring peace...
...Love or non-violence." "Satyagraha," Gandhi explained, "postulates the conquest of the adversary by suffering in one's own person," and it demands that every civil resister disobey a law that is counter to his own conscience and cheerfully to demand the punishment for breaking the law. This weapon, which was to shake the British Empire, relied not on the love of force, which had characterized so many previous revolutions, but on the force of love. Gandhi's emphasis was therefore solidly on a forceful, but non-violent, struggle: it was anything but "passive resistance...
...leaves the theater, he brightens perceptibly. He loves national flags-except for that of Ireland which "should replace the sickly-looking tricolor of green, white and yellow" with "the old flag, a lovely one, of the green field with the harp in its center." In "The Power of Laughter: Weapon Against Evil," O'Casey voices his deepest conviction: "Laughter is wine for the soul . . . Once we can laugh, we can live. It is the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living ... It is odd how many seem to be curiously envious of laughter, never of grief...