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...dark suits slipped out, 9-mm. German-made Schmeisser burp-guns cradled in their arms, and crawled behind a hedge that ran only 20 feet from where the President sat. At 7:20 a string of firecrackers exploded somewhere in the neighborhood. "They are celebrating a birthday over there," a member of the Remón party remarked. Two minutes later bursts of machine-gun fire sprayed the box. Two men died instantly; Remón's heavy frame slumped to the floor, blood darkening his pleated white sport shirt. "That was no firecracker," he gasped...
...western mustache and Gary Cooperish drawl. The rest of the battalion called him "Pistol Pete," because of his habit of collecting numerous weapons. At one time he carried, besides his 20-lb. Browning automatic, an Army issue .45, two revolvers, a chrome-plated automatic, and a Russian burp gun. His pockets and boot tops were crammed full of ammo for his weapons. A favorite saying among the men was that if an enemy bullet ever hit Gilliland he would explode. His heroism is the kind that is found only in the very young. He had an almost desperate desire...
...those semi-intellectuals who scout among the theatre listings, searching for ripe-sounding films at which they will be able to mock the public taste, to laugh at the wrong times, and to burp obscenities in love scenes, White Christmas will seem a promising tidbit. What unparalleled opportunities for bad taste--Bing Crosby as a lover, Rosemary Clooney as a singer, Danny Kaye as a wise-cracking comic, Dean Jagger as a crusty, kindly old general! All in Technicolor and Vista Vision tool How could it miss...
newsmen managed to get a quick look at the rebel army - 2,000-odd Indian-faced peasants, no two dressed alike but most of them wearing blue armbands with the white dagger and cross of the "Liberation Movement." They fingered black burp guns and seemed to have plenty of ammunition. The officers were upper-crust Guatemalan exiles-lawyers, engineers, coffee planters driven out for their politics or stripped of some of their land under Arbenz' Communist-administered agrarian reform program. Castillo Armas himself turned out to be a slender, sallow, diffident man in a checked shirt and leather jacket...
...piano, the rhythm section began to boost the beat while cymbals sizzled in the background. Five saxophones took up the melody, sweetly and a bit hoarsely, and then seven brasses began to clip into it with cross rhythms. Suddenly the snare drum cut loose with the effect of a burp gun, and the whole band leaped into ear-crushing chords and rammed home the climax...