Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What about East-West trade, if, as the President hoped, a new dawn starts to thaw out the cold war? "Trade is the greatest weapon in the hands of the diplomat," but a rigid policy can leave the diplomat emptyhanded. Instead of saying, "We won't trade," the U.S. has to say, "When does trade in what things benefit us most and our friends...
Rosen is permitted to go into gruesome detail because he is head of the Navy's Viking Rocket Project, and the Viking is not a military weapon but a research rocket for exploring the upper atmosphere...
...situation at home and hopeful about affairs abroad. With this "complacency" against them, Labourites have been doing their best to create crisis, that is, in the imagination of that small but decisive group of uncommitted voters who do not vote Tory or Socialist come what may. Eventually, their main weapon against the Conservatives has been the high cost of living costs. They have pointed out that, during their own regime at 1941 to 1951, their policy of a "fair share" gave the British people the lowest living costs in Western Europe. Because of the abandonment by the present Chancellor...
...Indeed, the infliction of such psychological punishment is more reprehensible than a physical attack: it leaves no discernible marks on the victim. Because it is thus concealed, it has, under the brutal-itarian regimes, become the favorite weapon of the secret police, bent on procuring confessions as a means of convicting the innocent...
...prominent American-trained psychologist, Lu Chih-wei, was liquidated when he refused to sign an anti-American testimonial; others have been pressured into phony confessions and self-ridicule. What hurts most is the enforcement of Communism's concept of science as a political and social weapon rather than a "bourgeois" search for truth. Meteorologists were ordered to "learn from Chairman Mao's statement on party doctrine." At a conference of mathematicians, one topic was "How to Realize Patriotism Through Education in Mathematics." At another meeting, the president of the Society of Chemistry, Tseng Chao-lun, confessed his organization...