Word: weaponization
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Lacoste v. Tilden. The finals . . . RenÉ Lacoste, a leading, eellike man with blue-black hair, with dark circles under his eyes . . . Tilden, long arms and long legs covering the court like a madcap daddylonglegs . . . both confident . . . both using every weapon of the game, tantalizing chop-strokes, lobs, uncanny placements, cannonballs . . . Lacoste injuring a leg trying to recover a Tilden cannonball . . . Tilden being called three times for foot faults by Allan Muhr, umpire from the U. S. . . . Tilden arguing with Muhr...
...last year of the 19th Century, separate catastrophe would be impossible. Total catastrophe trembles above them like a paper cutter on a thread when Dexter Manford arranges things so that he can, without Jim, have Lita as a guest in his country home. A triviality twists the weapon as it falls. Nona's arm is grazed, but her parents, unhurt, set out to tour the world. Lita goes back...
...Significance. It is not unjust to imply that for Mrs. Wharton's characters the most dangerous weapon of destruction would be a paper cutter. They are fragile figures which resemble" those outlined in fashion magazines for the socially ambitious to cut out. The narrative, as usual in Mrs. Wharton's books, is pursued with neo-Jamesian traps and snares, rather than less subtle hounds and horn. Her methods have not kept pace with her times, her subject matter, her ambition as social observer. Narration by implication, which seemed wise and successful in The House of Mirth, has, after...
...never had but one weapon with which to fight?the ballot? and you have thrown that away. Everywhere in the United States of America you have been sold out by a bunch of colored politicians...
...Allied countries, during the War, a doctrine was widely accepted that it is rightful to employ any weapon or method of warfare whatsoever against an enemy who adopts atrocious weapons or methods first. This doctrine of "rightful reprisals" was made last week the basis of a five-volume defense of German War practices. Onetime Minister of Justice Dr. Johannes Bell presented the report, entitled "International Law In the World War" to the Reichstag. The five volumes represent seven years of labor by a "nonpartisan" board of German scholars appointed by the Weimar Constitutional Assembly (1919). The Committee concludes that...