Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name-calling or personal acrimony. Quietly, doggedly, and with great clarity, he plugged away at explaining the gospel of strategic air power. This gospel held that the long-range bomber, always poised with its devastating atomic load to strike back at an aggressor, is the most pow erful U.S. weapon and the best deterrent...
...THAT BOMB! screamed London's Laborite Daily Herald. The Manchester Guardian asked, in reference to U.S. plans for another test shot in late April: "Is it really wise to proceed with these explosions?" In the House of Commons, the Laborites used the bomb as a new political weapon on their old target, the U.S. And Prime Minister Churchill, in the most solemn tone, assured a hushed House of Commons that the "overwhelming consequences of development ... fill my mind out of all comparison with anything else...
Public housing is a useful weapon for correcting "civic disgraces," said ex-Mayor Slusser, harking back to the old controversy: "In this city, I was denied that weapon. I would not have it denied to my successors." Slusser appealed to his fellow townsmen to recognize the new public-housing program as a good example of the change in attitude toward business which the 1952 election brought to Washington...
...real-estate men, thought Charlie Slusser, should have no "grounds for apprehension at the use of this weapon." Said he: "Taken together with the philosophy of this Administration, I think you will agree, this is no camel nose of Government trying to get under the private building tent...
Nine months later, as Dr. Hamilton limped downstairs (his right foot had never recovered from an infection incurred during his World War II military service) to try out a shotgun in his basement range, the weapon went off, shredding his bad right foot. It was amputated later that day, and in less than four months, Dr. Hamilton received his tax-free $400,000. It was one of the largest personal-injury indemnities ever paid...