Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communism could be slain by the jaw bone of an ass, in the junior Senator from Connecticut America would have a weapon more insidiously lethal than any atomic blast...
...journalist with hindsight. What he remembers best is the first Russian prisoner he saw: a frightened, ignorant peasant reduced to blubbering tears by the offer of a cigarette from his Finnish captors, and later brought to hysterical laughter when he realized that Mydans' camera was not a deadly weapon. Then, having been decent to.the prisoner, a Finnish major turned to Mydans and, between clenched teeth, assured him: "Russians are pigs...
...homeless refugees sleep on the streets every night, is the most explosive city in India. Murderous riots can be touched off by anything from a trifling rise in streetcar fares to the throat-cutting religious strife that killed thousands in 1946. Calcutta rioters have even perfected their own secret weapon: electric-light bulbs filled with nitric acid...
...American opinion and cries of "dollar diplomacy," the U.S., under Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt, abandoned intervention, first in practice (the troops were withdrawn from three countries) and then in principle (the U.S. signed the 1936 nonintervention agreement of Buenos Aires). Today the principle of nonintervention, far more than a weapon against out-of-date U.S. meddling, is a rule of law that must apply to all of the hemisphere's nations. As Colombian President Alberto Lleras Camargo (onetime head of the OAS) once said: "A group of democratic nations may destroy an antidemocratic government by coercion and intervention...
...just nominated Bob Leffingwell for Secretary of State. Bob is in trouble-a controversial liberal and accomplished public servant, he is a hero to the eggheads but unacceptable to conservatives. Old Senator Scab Cooley of South Carolina is frankly out to get him, and he finds his weapon when evidence links Leffingwell to a Communist cell in his past...