Word: desperado
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...London similar indignities were afoot. A thief entered a jewelry store and announced to the bored proprietor, "This is a held-up." As the merchant calmly pushed the desperado out of the store, he said, "Nonsense, I've got not time to waste with hoodlums...
...Mistakenly identified by the FBI as a gun moll of the same name, who in 1935 slipped a pistol through the bars of her desperado husband's cell, thereby aiding in his break from the Muskogee, Okla. jail...
...than a mystery story read backwards. Ava is the wife of a handsome, brave, wooden-faced Texas rancher (Howard Keel), who gets into a feud with a Mexican bandit (Anthony Quinn), a fellow who uses vino as a gargle. This bandit has a lieutenant, a handsome, brave, wooden-faced desperado (Robert Taylor). Gardner takes one look at Taylor and her earrings start aquivering...
...main Mau Mau forces are concentrated in two guerrilla armies, lurking in the forested highlands : one under "General Russia," a scar-faced ex-schoolteacher whose real name is Dedam Kimathi (TIME, Feb. 23); the other under "General China," an elusive desperado who dominates Mt. Kenya. One Mau Mau band, 150 strong and heavily armed, last week at tacked the trading center of Kanderudu, repulsed a British patrol and seized its transport. The soldiers called for air support, and counterattacked. Result: 40 Mau Mau were killed (ten by an African trooper who kept firing his Bren gun even after...
Trapped between gunman and bomb, the captives sweat it out through all sorts of minor melodramatic outbursts: two of the hostages unsuccessfully try to knife and shoot the desperado (Stephen Mc-Nally); a doctor (Richard Egan) performs an emergency operation on the gunman's wounded pal (Paul Kelly); the doctor's spoiled wife (Alexis Smith) sees her lover (Robert Paige) shot to death; love comes to a hard-boiled nightclub entertainer (Jan Sterling) and a reporter (Keith Andes...