Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Benedetto inherited 200,000 francs from a brother in the U.S., he brought Maddalena home and bought her enormous quantities of morphine, but the agony went on. "Buy a gun and do it," she pleaded. "If you die before I do, I'll never forgive you." Finally, he bought the gun...
...quick-acting parachute that works even when an airplane is still running on the ground. When the pilot triggers the mechanism, lots of things happen fast. An explosive cartridge blows the canopy off and tosses seat, pilot and all 80 feet in the air. Then an automatically timed gun opens small parachutes that steady the tumbling seat. An instant later, the timing mechanism opens the main parachute, the seat drops away and the pilot drifts safely to earth...
...Control. During the armistice talks, one lengthy argument revolved around how to enforce the truce terms that banned any military buildups. Replacements were allowed but not reinforcements, so that neither side could swell its strength by a single additional plane, man or gun. To make sure that the terms were observed, the U.N. suggested that neutral truce teams have the right to inspect any place in Korea at any time by land or air. The Communists, however, refused to permit free inspection of their territory. They compromised by permitting truce teams to operate in five specified check points. The Neutral...
...this point the priest hardly seems worth saving, but Novelist Hardy gives him one more chance. During a retreat from the victorious Communists, an officer is hit by machine-gun bullets and begs for the priest. Again fear seizes Roget, but this time the colonel unexpectedly helps him find his soul. Standing beside the priest, Lejeune says with great compassion: "All right. Go now. Don't crawl. Walk out to him." When Roget goes to the dying man, it is the beginning of his return to faith and self-respect...
...nation's first school of scientific crime detection at Northwestern University; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Colonel Goddard's ballistics techniques were widely disputed in 1927 when he presented evidence at the Sacco-Vanzetti trial that a bullet from Nicola Sacco's gun had killed South Braintree Payroll Guard Alessandro Berardelli...