Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he mobilized the Salvation Army in 1878, William Booth formally proclaimed a holy war. The enemy was the Devil and all the Devil's allies, particularly strong drink. Booth was after men's souls and his principal weapon was evangelism. The modern army still fights that war; but now its principal weapon is charity...
...sometimes fell into ecstatic trances while saying Mass. During one trance, in 1918, Padre Pio collapsed and had to be carried unconscious from the church. Those who examined him found bleeding wounds in his hands and feet and a wound in his side "such as produced by a sharp weapon." Padre Pio had the stigmata-the marks of Christ...
...given up. The three-day week had saved him from a possible Taft-Hartley injunction, would keep the rank & file quiet and keep the coal stockpile down to a size where he might be able to use a coal shortage as a bargaining weapon. Lewis had also gained time in which to try to divide management by making separate agreements-a strategy which Phil Murray had used successfully against the steel industry. He badly needed...
Asked about a hydrogen bomb, the AECommissioners refused to comment. Said Chairman David E. Lilienthal: "All weapon information is classified...
...Deadly Weapon. In London, Daniel Raven was convicted of beating his father-in-law to death with the butt end of a television aerial...