Word: weaponizing
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...also the Russian aim to prevent American capital from building a railroad across Northern Persia. England, too, is fighting the Americans in this, and the British Government is using the loan made to Persia in wartime as a very effective weapon...
...title of "Red Emperor." Again, he is different from Trotzky, whose aggressive spirit is tempered with shrewdness and whose power is wielded less by the force of oratory than by Machiavellian methods. In Zinoviev the fire of revolution burns unextinguishably; the power of his oratory is his most deadly weapon; his lips form revolutionary metaphors and epigrams and hurl them upon his audience until it becomes intoxicated with his magic; his voice, aided by gestures from "a windmill of arms and legs," is like that of a tragédien, rising from the soft strains of pathos to the roar...
...Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania: Inquired if the federal judges should not be spared "the shock of industrial warfare," the burden of legislative and executive problems. Defended peaceable picketing, a strike weapon, as "domesticated" by England. Inveighed against industrial injunctions...
...assailant fired four revolver shots at the Chancellor, one of which took effect; after, he turned the weapon upon himself with effect thought likely to prove fatal...
...Among us politicians the quack and the trickster still flourish and the printed word is their most powerful weapon. Would that you (the publishers) adopt some schedule rates for such political advertising and would decline to publish the appeal of the liar and charlatan. Close your columns to the claptrap and buncombe of the politicians. Scorn our words when you know that we are uttering falsehoods, just as you scorn the dishonest advertiser...