Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paddled the harder, but in vain, and on seeing himself nearing the shore, he leaped overboard with a shrill cry of despair and began to swim away. Though his efforts were heroic, his progress was practically nil, and some thirty seconds later he was rapidly overhauled by a long arm, which ignominiously lifted and deposited him in the bottom of the boat, defeated, but not discouraged, thwarted, but not downhearted, but very, very...
...idea: Louis Barthou and Alexander of Jugoslavia would not have been shot down last fortnight in Marseilles if police had taken proper precautions;* Louis Barthou would not have died if a flustered bystander had placed the temporary tourniquet above instead of below the wound in his arm. Premier Doumergue pronounced the funeral oration: "Lift up your hearts as we meditate on his life and example. Let us bar the route to the powers of evil that are loosened everywhere and doing the work of death. Remember always that this man who has laid down his life fell at a moment...
...reputations, the French secret police, assisted by the Jugoslav police, had uncovered by the week's end, the following "facts": Alexander's assassin, hacked to pieces by police sabres and bullets, was a fat young man named Petrus Kalemen, later said to be Vlada Georgieff. On his arm was tattooed the motto and device of a Mace donian secret society known as IMRO. The weapon with which the murders were committed was a huge ungainly Mauser automatic pistol of the latest type which sprays 20 shots like a machine gun. In his pockets Kalemen also carried a Walther...
...democracy to handle them with awareness of general implications instead of with sporadic excitability. Indeed observers have asserted that in the foreign field democracy finds consistent policy impossible, and either comes to grief directly in an international imbroglio or falls into such disropute at home that "strong-arm" men are called upon to govern...
Hour later, old Louis Barthou, whose single bullet had opened an artery in his arm, breathed his last. It was his death as much as the King's which caused statesmen, throughout Europe, to rush excitedly to Cabinet chambers...