Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Firearms are accountable for slightly more than half of the nation's deaths by homicide, cutting and piercing instruments for a quarter, miscellaneous means for the rest. Gun-toting Wyoming and South Dakota polished off 87% of their homicide victims by bullets in 1952. Vermonters, on the other hand, prefer hammers, knives and iron bars: Vermont was the only state to report no homicides by firearms...
Later, when the Pasha himself returned from calling on Grandval, a crowd of angry youths blocked his car's passage. Octogenarian El Glaoui himself seized a submachine gun and stood foursquare on the cobblestones until the mob dispersed. Before the sun went down on Marrakech that night, Morocco was the poorer by 10 more dead and 27 wounded...
Kept on ice for two weeks at congressional expense had been Harry Miner, a French Canadian whose profession is to smuggle babies across the U.S. border for adoption (at a price) in the U.S. But Miner had jumped the gun on the hearings, with a North American Newspaper Alliance description of his activities. After this happened, Kefauver received a chin-up note from one of his staffers: "Estes, at first blush this sounds bad, but it really is not. It will steal a little thunder, but at the same time it will really 'boom' our hearings...
...still is-an energetic jack-of-all-problems, in business, bureaucracy or statecraft. Knowing little about banking, he became head of the Gosbank, Soviet equivalent of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Neither chemist nor metallurgist, (serving alongside Molotov) he whipped Russian production of explosives and gun metals to record heights...
...half-breeds of mixed Italian, Spanish and Moroccan blood and Morocco's equivalent of the South's "poor white," who hate the native Moroccans with a fury based on economic insecurity. In the heart of the city, rioters lynched one Moroccan, shot down two others with submachine guns, and clubbed the bodies with gun butts. Yelling "Death to Grandval," one mob, thousands strong, tried to storm the city's office buildings, was driven back only by fire hoses and tear gas. The French police made little attempt to discipline the mob. "They're only kids. They...