Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Democrats held a coming-out party at the Capitol for their secret weapon: the Party's first feminine national secretary. She is dimpled, blue-eyed Dorothy Vredenburgh, 27, a wealthy lumberman's wife from Vredenburgh, Ala. At a lunch Mrs. Vredenburgh beamed on New Dealers and anti-New Dealers alike. She reassured 49 of her Party's Senators...
Double Blade. The Allied air weapon was cutting as a two-edged sword. Air officers welcomed the chance either to dismantle Germany's war industry at trifling cost, or, better still, to whittle down the tiring Luftwaffe squadrons in the process...
Like Voronov, Stalin liked cannon. This was no new-fangled weapon: the gun was strong and dependable, like the Russian muzhik who handled it. The cannon, Stalin said, is "the god of war." Voronov made a good high priest. Beginning in 1938, he began to call at the Kremlin to make personal reports to Stalin. When Voronov needed help to put his ideas across, he now knew where to look...
When the Germans struck on June 22, 1941, Red Army commanders were green. Their teamwork was bad. The Red Air Force (then being re-equipped with new models) was weak, tank tactics faulty. In the bitter days of retreat, Voronov found himself woefully short of the weapon his foe had aplenty-trench mortars. But his heavier guns fought with skill and stubborn valor: of the few thousand German tanks disabled in the first months of war, Voronov's guns wrecked every third...
...desperate, 23-year-old girl in a mental hospital tried to kill herself last fall with the only weapon at hand, a 2½-in. sewing needle. She succeeded in getting it be tween her ribs and into her heart, but she did not die. Though the needle was a constant threat to her life, doctors let it alone for a month until the patient became calm enough to undergo an operation. X rays, meanwhile, showed that the needle was working its way through the tough heart muscle...