"The term goes back 50 years, but you can't turn on the radio or television without hearing about 'weapons of mass destruction'."

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Wayne Glowka, chairman of the American Dialect Society's new words committee, on the selection of weapons of mass destruction as 2002 Word of the Year — quoted in