Word: burp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly two Viet Cong, who had slipped into the village the night before and hidden in a nearby house, burst in on the 40 worshipers. One fired a Czech burp gun, instantly killing the two officiating priests and Tuong's aunt, and hitting Tuong in the shoulder. Unable to draw his pistol, Tuong ran. A second burst cut him down in mid-courtyard. As so often happens in the terrorist war, the two assassins escaped in the confusion. In angry frustration, Tuong's nephew seized a long knife, raced next door and stabbed to death...
Smuggling alone deprives the government of nearly $125 million a year in revenues-a figure that represents a quarter of the national budget. The overall crime rate has risen by 50.8% during the last two years, and more than 1,000 crimes were committed by police officers. Lugers and burp guns are freely advertised in the Manila dailies, and political campaigns are not complete without a dozen or more assassinations...
...being, he gracefully accepted a statement by President Roy W. Moore Jr. that Canada Dry's next quarterly earnings would drop because of a $3,000,000 outlay to promote a grapefruit drink named Wink. (President Moore, sipping Wink while speaking, at one point let out an inadvertent burp and apologized: "It wasn't the Wink; it was me.") After the meeting, Simon said: "Canada Dry is doing exactly what it should be doing...
...divide the Federation's Chinese and Malays. Last week, after bellying through the bush near Sarawak's provincial capital of Kuching, a band of some 40 Indonesians in berets and tennis shoes surprised a police outpost, chopped down six Malaysian cops with a burst from a Czech burp gun. Led by a pair of Malaysian exiles, both Chinese Communists, the guerrillas went searching for Chinese peasants loyal to the government of Tunku Abdul Rahman. They killed three in one family, stabbed three men near a bridge on the road to Kuching, and reportedly hanged a Chinese patriarch...
Pimp? He tried again: "You considered yourself an undercover man, or pimp?" (Objection sustained.) "You had a burp gun in your car, didn't you?" (Objection sustained.) "Are you a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?" (Objection sustained.) Then...