Word: weaponeering
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...city in southern Japan, wasdestroyed in seconds in one blinding flash. More than 100,000 people, nearly half of Hiroshima's population, perished immediately. Tens of thousands more died later of injuries sustained in the searing blast. But the real damage, as TIME wrote in 1945, was that this weapon "put into the hands of common man the fire and force of the sun itself...
...begun to make some accommodations to age. He has become compulsive about working the phones while sunning on his Senate veranda -- the tan he works hard on, says a Senator, is his "secret weapon." Dole admits to putting "a little stuff'' on his hair to keep out the gray, although he insists he does not color his eyebrows. And he sometimes slips off to his new hideaway near his office for a nap on a couch that Dole nabbed when Senator Howard Metzenbaum retired last year...
...they've ever used is no longer effective. Too many union members are afraid that if they go on strike, they'll lose their jobs. There's a hostile political environment in Washington. So now they're returning to their old motto: strength in numbers. This is the only weapon they have to survive and improve their...
...Hsin-liang, a contender in Taiwan's first presidential election, has come up with a campaign stunt that's hard to top: sailing into the path of a nuclear weapon. As a protest against China's widely-criticized plans to stage missile tests near its offshore rival, Hsu rented a fishing boat and headed for the test site 90 miles north of the island. "As a world superpower, China should try to resolve disputes by peaceful means, not by military threats," the opposition Democratic Progressive Party candidate said by telephone from the boat. Taiwan has perceived the tests, scheduled...
ARRESTED. RODNEY KING, 30, whose videotaped beating by police ultimately led to the 1992 Los Angeles riots; on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and domestic violence; in Altadena, California. This time the police taped the arrest themselves. He was released after posting a $50,000 bond...