Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Second Night. At 12.39 a.m. next day, as the talk droned on, Knowland introduced a closure petition by which debate could be shut off on a two-thirds vote. It was Knowland's only available weapon, and with it he served notice of his determination to harass the filibusterers. They rejoined by demanding a quorum call at 12:50, another at 3:46. The quorum calls gave the orators a respite while the sergeant-at-arms routed Senators out of their beds at home or off their cots in the Capitol...
...fanatic Nationalist Party sprayed the chamber of U.S. House of Representatives with pistol bullets, wounding five Congressmen.* Last week Terrorist Lebroón got a much lighter sentence than she apparently expected. Washington's Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff gave her the maximum for assault with a dangerous weapon: 50 years in prison, with eligibility for parole in 16 years, eight months...
...polls and showing them where to put the cross has long been the favorite way of Guatemalan Presidents, including Arbenz and his dictatorial predecessors, of getting into office or staying there. In refusing ballots to citizens who cannot read or write, Castillo Armas freely surrendered a traditional weapon for keeping power...
...teaching hospitals are taxexempt, surely no one would think it his right to tell the cancer specialist how he should go about curing cancer ... In short, the doctrine that tax exemption justifies a political judgment as to the soundness of ideas can be a very dangerous two-edged weapon. Indeed it can be the most devastating weapon ever invented for invading the private life of this nation...
...chemical weapon against cancer has always been looked upon as ideal-such weapons as X ray or radium therapy work with an undiscriminating shotgun effect on growing tissues, healthy as well as diseased. (These techniques do not work when the disease is advanced and widespread.) But many authorities have held that chemicals, too, would prove hazardous. Sloan-Kettering's preliminary findings with rats and mice suggest that the hazard may be overcome, but the crucial test is still to come-the testing of these and other compounds on transplanted human cancers in rats and mice (TIME, April...