Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...message which deserve support from the Democratic Congress. His foreign aid and trade programs, particularly, should receive high priority, although the offer of long-term economic aid would have sounded more impressive abroad if the President had recommended assistance for its own sake and not as an anti-communist weapon...
...Pasadena, Calif., David Gordon was arrested for threatening null a deadly weapon when, at a local movie, he got annoyed at three popcorn-chewing men who sat behind him, whirled in his seat and stuck a .32-cal. revolver in their faces, ordered: "Keep your mouths shut...
Reporters asked Wilson if the Russians are ahead or behind the U.S. in missile development. His answer: "I don't think we really know." He saw little chance of missiles replacing piloted aircraft in the near future, called missiles "just another weapon or potential weapon . . . another of these new sort of mysterious sort of things...
...Basic Weapon. The Sampleses' happy ending is just one of hundreds of reconciliations that have made Judge Burke's court a model of its type. The record of the Conciliation Court is astonishingly good: out of 2,074 divorce-bound couples who have crossed its threshold in the past two years, 887, or 43%, have been reconciled, and only a quarter of these patched-up homes have come apart again. In the rescued homes live 2,000 children -and Judge Burke frequently points out that seven out of every ten juvenile delinquents come from broken homes...
...Conciliation Court is not unique; Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Washington, among other states, have similar courts. But Burke's court has a potent basic weapon: his reconciliation contract. The lengthy form document (36 pages) begins with an agreement to forgive past injuries, and covers a long list of subjects, including the right to privacy ("In such matters as personal mail"), in-laws, sex, late hours, gambling, grudges, bringing home the paycheck ("The parties agree to preserve and exhibit to one another all pay stubs representing any earnings earned by them"), charge accounts and the silent or doghouse treatment. Each...