Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students, skillfully whipped up by older men, hoisted bed sheets painted with the slogans of international Communism, blew rubber Bronx-cheer whistles and shouted, "Get out, Nixon!" When the good-will guests walked smiling down the plane's steps, The Star-Spangled Banner and a 21-gun salute were drowned in an ugly howl of hatred...
...Wrote home for money and they sent it quick. Told them if they didn't I'd take up bull-fighting; or maybe gun-running in Algeria. They always liked me pretty much, anyway. I let the draft boys know I was studying Spanish for some diplomatic spot, so between us we were all happy...
Tall and erect in a severe black vest and tail coat, Arturo Frondizi laid his hand on the Bible and swore to discharge his duties with "loyalty and patriotism." Cannon in the square outside boomed a 21-gun salute, and the 3,000 people jammed into the 1,000-seat Hall of Congress cheered the return of constitutional government after a decade of dictatorship and 31 months of military rule...
...mother of us all, to appease the powers that really be, has sent many of her innocent babes scurrying to the Business School parking lot, there to deposit their passion wagons under the watchful and paternal eye of six-gun justice...
...varsity managed to break into the scoring column in the first period with a goal by Dick Parks at 14:59, just one second before the gun. Dub Mallonee had set up the play with a pass to Parks. During the second period the Tigers' strong clearing and checking prevented any sustained Crimson attack...