Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...busy playing tennis to be bothered. His big game showed no weakness at all. His spinning serve kicked wide and pulled Nielsen out of position. His backhands ripped down the court. His lobs floated unerringly toward the baseline. Nielsen never had a chance; his booming serve was his only weapon and it was not enough. He ran himself ragged, and when the close calls went against him he had little energy left for complaint. The best he could muster were a few defiant glares (called "oldfashioned looks" in Britain) at the linesmen...
...Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had other plans. He rushed the resolution through the committee to the floor, where he mimicked McCarthy, saying that Joe would blame "the striped-pants boys from the State Department" if the resolution did not come to a vote. Then Johnson made it his own weapon: "The issue before the Senate is a very simple one. It is whether the President of the United States shall be sent to the Big Four Conference in a strait jacket." He forced the Senate to choose...
...stations; by aiming at a third slot, he can turn off the sound. Cost about $75 more than conventional TV sets. But the gadget is more than a sales gimmick; because it makes a sport of knocking off the sound when the commercial comes on, Zenith has a new weapon in its fight...
...people of the U.S. instinctively reject any thought that their greatest scientific achievement can be used only as a weapon . . . While we build atomic-powered ships for war-because we must -we have the desire, the determination to build atomic-powered ships for peace. And build them we shall. While we design bombs that can obliterate great military objectives-because we must-we are also designing generators, channels and reservoirs of atomic energy so that man may profit from this gift which the Creator of all things has put into his hands. And build them we shall." Look...
Racing through the pages of Author Raymond Thorp's Bowie Knife, Iraq's impressionable young (20) King Feisal II got so excited about the wonderful versatility of such a weapon* that he instructed his aide-de-camp to try to get one of the genuine articles from the book's publisher, the University of New Mexico Press. Word of Feisal's request splashed into U.S. wire services, and soon the university's President Tom Popejoy was being showered with offers of stilettos, daggers, cheese knives and bodkins from all over. San Antonio's Chamber...