Word: weaponizing
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...Garden Hose" At Fort Tilden (near Manhattan) anti-aircraft gunners prepared to test a new "sightless" 50-caliber Browning anti-aircraft machine gun. Instead of aiming and firing at the target by the aid of sights, a gunner firing the new weapon simply turns it like a garden hose upon aircraft overhead and sprays them with a stream of 450 bullets per minute, every fifth bullet being a flaming "tracer bullet" which indicates...
...honest worker will believe the sort of picture of Russia drawn by Max Eastman. It contains its own refutation. It is immaterial what were Eastman's intentions. His booklet can only render service to the worst enemies of Communism and revolution. It therefore objectively constitutes a weapon of counter-revolution...
...peroration: "England needs Germany as a weapon for balancing her policy in Europe and as a base of attacks on the Soviet union. Since the Conservatives came into power, England is trying by all means to drag Germany into the League in order to use her as a bulwark for possible attacks on Russia...
...Louis. If Joseph Stecher, Nebraska wrestler, wraps his legs around a pig, he can break its ribs; his weapon, like the boa-constrictor's, is the squeeze; famed is his scissors hold. Last week, in St. Louis, he wrestled Stanislaus Zbyszko, known as "The Old Man."* Zbyszko curled his legs and arms underneath his body so that the scissors was ineffectual, wriggled, writhed; but, after 1 hr. 23 min., he groaned, admitted defeat. Stecher took the next fall in 5 min., earned the right to meet Edward ("Strangler") Lewis, world's champion...
...therefore argued that gas is a more humane weapon than explosives (also strictly chemical weapons) which had a death rate of 1 in 3. There the matter might rest a triumph for the scientists; for most men with active experience of the War believe that they are right. But there is the future to be considered...