Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what pleased Liberals most was that tough Jimmy Gardiner had forged a potent political weapon. In Gardiner's own farmer-dominated Saskatchewan the up-&-coming Socialist C.C.F., which both Liberals and Conservatives mortally hate and fear, has been winning many a convert among the disgruntled. Minister Gardiner's bacon deal might help stem the Left-wing tide in the part of the Dominion where it flows highest...
...Algiers pressed another case: the need of their comrades inside France for arms. The resistance movement in the homeland, they claimed, should be recognized as the vanguard of Allied invasion. In the ranks of 40,000 shock troops actively harrying the Germans, there was not more than one weapon for every 20 men. "The underground movement," said one resistance delegate, "is dying from exhaustion...
...talk, no reputable United Nations scientist or military man believes that secret weapons will have any decisive effect on the war's outcome. This certainty springs in part from the probability that there is no such thing as a completely secret weapon-jet-propelled planes (flown by Italians before the war), rocket guns and atom-busting have all been subjects of intense research by both United Nations and Axis scientists. In part this skepticism springs from the fact that secret weapons have seldom given an army anything more than a temporary advantage...
...Greek fire" (a mixture of pitch, sulfur, quicklime and petroleum), invented by a Syrian named Callinicus, saved Constantinople from the Saracens (673-77 A.D.). This was one of the most impressive victories of a secret weapon...
...quickest stalematings of a secret weapon by a secret weapon was the celebrated battle of the ironclads in the U.S. Civil War. Less than 24 hours after the South's armored Merrimac had attacked the North's wooden fleet at Hampton Roads, the Yankee Monitor, an armored "cheesebox" invented by John Ericcson, hove into cannon range. They slugged each other to a standoff...