Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knows her place and respects her white folks." The Montgomery boycott is unique and significant. It points to a unmistakable trend in Dixie, an increasing awareness by the Negro of his plight and a determination to do something about it. Ironically, the Negroes in Montgomery have appropriated the same weapon which White Citizens' Councils have successfully employed in Mississippi and other states--economic strangulation. It works both ways...
...TIME produced an excellent summary of the race for the "ultimate weapon" [Jan. 30]. It frightens me to speculate on what can happen when the pushbutton pushers get something to push...
NATO's other justification for being, and by no means a secondary one, is as a peacetime weapon of the cold war. It reduces fear and restores hope to Europe, by providing a shield-a shield that is visible, and, by virtue of five U.S. divisions in Germany, visibly American. In doing so, NATO, in its seven short years, has served well. It has created a community powerful enough to deter its enemy, healthy enough to survive family squabbles so far, binding enough so that no member has wished to withdraw. And for NATO's present solidity...
Best trick of all in the Navy's future will be to launch missiles from submarines submerged. If the submarine is nuclear, with an almost unlimited cruising period, it can be stationed for months off an enemy coast. This will make it a fine retaliatory weapon...
...illicit bliss to Rose, a stranded French actress with a Greek drape shape. They withdraw to an unused south-of-France villa owned by Alexis' uncle. But the uncle, Sir George Dillingham, a 62-year-old Edwardian dandy steals a march on the lovers with his secret weapon ("The old Rolls stopped noiselessly outside"). Achieving complete surprise, Uncle George manages to detach Rose from Alexis...