Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appliances, all in one convenient book." The U.S. Information Agency agrees with this boast by Edward Hardiman, foreign-sales representative of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and has sent 3,500 copies of Sears's 1,444-page fall and winter catalogue to its 225 overseas posts as an official weapon of anti-Communist propaganda...
Persuader. In Milwaukee, after he shot himself in the backside with a pistol he drew from his hip pocket during a card game, Calvin Richardson was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, explained to police that he only had the thing on him for collateral in case he lost and had to float a small loan...
...some bigheaded, bandy-legged, ivy-green men from Mars with a secret weapon and a gripe against Marxists took over Earth, wiped out all the Communists and went home, how would things be? Much better, no doubt. But last week's news brought wholesome reminders that even if Communism were erased, old Earth would still have plenty of troubles...
Soul force, a made-in-India device for nonviolent resistance to authority, is a dangerous weapon which, like poison gas, can blow back in the faces of those who use it. Last week India's Prime Minister Nehru decided that India had been soul-forced enough for the time being. Reliance on soul force, or satyagraha, had resulted in 22 deaths on the border of Goa, but it had neither led the Portuguese to give up their tiny 400-year-old colony, nor bestirred the Goans to do anything about their own liberation...
Besides, soul force had become too catchy. Across the border in Pakistan, 15,000 Moslems were planning to march in satyagraha fashion against Kashmir this month, in protest against India's occupation. And every local disgruntled Indian seemed to be threatening to use satyagraha as a weapon against Nehru's government: Socialists protesting the Congress Party's corruption, right-wingers protesting the Congress Party's socialism Communists protesting against anybody and everything. On a flying tour of Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh states, Nehru was shocked to discover "fissiparous tendencies" among rebellious students, Sikhs Moslems...