Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile Cambridge police were attracted by the noise and collared the fleeing man. After a through search the police were unable to find a weapon on the man and since the molested women did not actually report the offense the man was booked only on drunkenness and disorderly conduct charges. Police identified the man simply as being 27 years old, married, and from Cambridge...
...Jenkins defended a Negro youth who had stabbed a white man to death. The prosecution contended that the boy had stabbed his victim in the back, and asked the death penalty. Jenkins proved that the white man was the aggressor, that he suddenly turned his back to get another weapon just as the fatal blow struck. The jury took only a few minutes to acquit...
Might not the nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? . . . The left parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot on my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from behind...
...Richardson of Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner (circ. 324,468) last week printed a special list of 85 "Forbidden Words" for his staff. Among the banned words and phrases: dragnet, aired, bared (for revealed), legal bombshell, probe (for investigate), sweeping investigations, innocent bystander, fair sex, goodies, kiddies, smoking weapon, dropped dead, ill-gotten gains, minced no words, nuptial knot, socialite, tongue-lashing, whirlwind courtship...
...FIGHTERS are being -equipped with new 20-mm. cannon that can fire explosive shells faster than the standard (1,200 rounds per min.) .50-cal. machine gun. The new weapon, which fires cartridges by electricity instead of the usual mechanical hammer, was developed by Ford and Illinois Institute of Technology engineers from World War II German plans, is now being mass-produced by General Motors' Pontiac Division...