Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...momentousness of the news could be judged by the headlines it displaced. Until the bulletin from Moscow, the big news everywhere was of the U.S. Seventh Fleet steaming to within gun range of Communist China to evacuate, come war or high water, Chiang's Nationalists from the Tachen Islands. The British Commonwealth prime ministers assembled in London could talk of nothing else; Britain's Laborites cried that it surely meant war and demanded that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden beg Premier Chou En-lai for peace. That kind of fear of imminent war in the Formosa Strait (an impression...
Hacked from Rock. The 10,000 regulars of Lieut. General Liu Lien-yi's 46th Division took it harder. Glumly, soldiers loaded guns, mortars, electric cables, fresh boxes of ammunition still labeled: "From U.S.A. for Mutual Defense." Behind them, explosions thundered as demolition teams blew up pillboxes and gun emplacements laboriously hacked out of the rock...
...pistol team Wednesday won its first match since its organization last year when it out-shot the Mystic Valley Gun Club, 1005 to 1008. High scorer for the match was Kirby Scherer with 274, followed in order by Henry Pahl, Colin Doane and Lloyd Roberts...
This was the fifth match of the season for the team, which has previously lost to the Merchant Marines, Annapolis, the Coast Guard, and the Mystic Valley Gun Club. Its score has improved almost 200 points since the first match against Mystic Valley...
...first two shows are considered. The opener, called The Last of the Old-Time Shooting Sheriffs, was a witty debunking of the classic western with its quick-drawing, deadshot badmen and goodmen. The veteran sheriff of the title, played with creaking excellence by Russ Simpson, was a gun slinger who preferred a donkey to a spirited stallion, avoided trouble when he could, and in a gun battle, always got his man by holding onto his revolver with both hands while lie fired. Last week's show, Trouble on the Double, was a forced and unfunny farce about an expectant...