Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hying 180 knots at 8,000 feet," the commander, Lieut. Richard Fischer, said a few hours later, "when ordnance [i.e., his aviation ordnanceman] reported a Russian plane. 'I have an aircraft! It's firing on us!' I took immediate evasive action. A hail of machine-gun bullets hit the fuselage and port wing, and injured three or four men. We had no opportunity to return fire...
...turned and dove under clouds. One wing caught fire from the machine-gun bursts. The plane later crash-landed on St. Lawrence Island. The landing was smooth as a landing like that can be." The eleven crewmen were soon picked up by Eskimos, and were later flown back to their base in Alaska by U.S. rescue planes."There was no panic at any time," Lieut. Fischer concluded. "The men were laughing and joking-except those in pain from burns...
...Tubman's True Whig Party in the elections last month. Police rounded up 28 opposition-party stalwarts and set out to find David Coleman, their national chairman. At Coleman's rubber farm 30 miles from Monrovia, the posse was greeted with a volley of machine-gun fire. Two of the expedition were killed, four others wounded. The cops set fire to Coleman's house as its defenders disappeared among the rubber trees. There was no sign of Coleman...
...announcements that Perón was victorious and the nation tranquil, a radio station inanely played a record of an old George Gershwin song. Somebody Loves Me, I Wonder Who? Suddenly, rebel airmen struck again. Planes swept across the plaza, dropping bombs and raking soldiers and civilians with machine-gun fire. Hundreds more were killed or wounded...
Cornell planned on getting away fast and giving everything it had to hold the lead. But the University of Washington's Huskies and the unbeaten Quakers beat the Big Red to the gun. For a mile and a half, the Washington and Penn crews pulled their hearts out to hold the pace. Then, stroking along at a steady 30 beats a minute, Cornell began to get way on its boat. Just before the two-mile marker, the Big Red caught up with its plan: it was a boat deck in front...