Word: weaponize
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...passenger jump into my aisle, grasping something in both hands. I start to aim at him, but under the pressure I am experiencing, my muscles aren't responding well; it's as if my arms were moving through setting concrete. I hear the pop, pop, pop of his weapon. One round hits my stomach, another my right arm. The last, just below my eye. Trained to keep fighting even if shot, I focus the front sight of my Sig at his heart and pull the trigger repeatedly, riding the recoil. My assailant drops to the floor. I look...
...best weapon is our base speed during the middle of the race,” senior five-seat Tyler Winklevoss added. “Like every race before, we walked out after the beginning high strokes and never looked back...
Reagan's boosters argue that it took a weapon that never worked to win a war that was never fought. For having failed to kill the program, the Soviets were prodded by SDI into trying to modernize their society--which could only be achieved by liberalization. "I used to think SDI didn't have a great impact," says Lawrence Korb, who was an Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Reagan Administration. "But as I meet former Soviet marshals and talk to them, I'm increasingly convinced it had a major impact. The Soviets feared it could work, and that...
...about the answer. At the time, America's diplomats were being held hostage in Iran, a rescue attempt had crashed in flames in the desert, and the Army--by its generals' own admission--was going "hollow." Though Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter had all promoted the development of new weapons systems--the MX missile, F-117 fighter, the B-2 bomber, the M1 tank--it was under Reagan that those programs bore fruit, along with a mighty, imaginary weapon born all of Reagan's own instincts...
...movies made in 1939, detailing the heroics of Secret Service Agent Brass Bancroft. In Secret Service of the Air, he foils an alien-smuggling racket and, during a fight, executes a smooth backflip over a cantina table. Murder in the Air earned some later camp luster with its secret weapon, the Inertia Protector, which is able to destroy hostile bombs aimed at the U.S.--a primitive forerunner of President Reagan's Star Wars plan...