Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Judge Metzger wanted the whole legal hog or none. He decided to make a test with an ancient civil weapon: the writ of habeas corpus. Two U.S. citizens of German ancestry had been held for months in an Army detention camp. Judge Metzger's writ ordered the Army to hand the prisoners over to the civil courts...
Together Burns and Keyser smoothed the G.F.T.'s kinks and adapted it to compute ranges for any powder charge and any weapon. Getting it accepted by the Army was slower work. Eventually Harry Burns was ready to give up; above his desk he pinned a bunch of red tape (to make himself feel at home) and slouched back to ruminate on horses. But Keyser kept rushing in where colonels feared to tread. Eventually he sold the War Department...
Surprise number of the program was Dr. LeCorbeiller's unveiling of his new secret weapon, the Super Band-pass Distortion Eliminator, Deluxe Model. Dr. LeCorbeiller explained his invention in his usual clear manner, so that everyone could understand. The audience was mystified. It was a graphic demonstration of Dr. LeCorbeiller's favorite subject, Signal Distortion, in which, from a mere bull fiddle, the inventor produced the sound of a complete brass band...
After the show, dancing continued, refreshments flowed, and the cupcakes disappeared rapidly. The party ended with the tolling to midnight from the bell in the tower of Memorial Hall. Dr. LeCorbeiller's secret weapon remained to stand guard over the building...
...clutch gleefully in both hands, and with a heinous whoop," or whatever other sound may best express your innermost emotions, smash one at a time against the book-piled desk at which you've sat so many hot nights. After this act of delicious reprisal, grab the nearest blunt weapon, and bludgeon to permanent silence the obstinate object of your electronic muddle...