Word: gun
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...like a steel clamp beneath a prairie-dry mustache, his thoughts projected far out across a new century big with change. "Too fast?" the driver shouted. Theodore Roosevelt. Vice President of the U.S. and due before dawn to become President of the U.S.. rattled back like a Catling gun: "Go ahead...
...believe in a strong executive," said T.R. "I believe in power; but I believe that responsibility should go with power." Above all else, it was T.R.'s presidential presence-the glint behind spectacles, the mustache, the teeth, the granite jaw, the Gatling-gun voice-that rallied his dispirited countrymen behind his challenging precepts of freedom through order and venture and pride...
...while putting in the most definitive display of world peacekeeping by power politics that the U.S. had ever known. In T.R.'s second term the world stage was vaster than the Caribbean. World powers were in the mood for adventures. Secret treaties were being signed. The adolescent machine gun would cause untold loss of life. So T.R. began to move his ships and his diplomats in consort to try to head off history's first world war. Said T.R.: "I never take a step in foreign policy unless I am assured that I shall be able eventually...
...them hurriedly fastened the insignia back on Husein's uniform with the cry of "Recommissioned by the people!'' Troops and field-grade officers lined up to pledge loyalty to the rebels. As the ultimatum's deadline approached. Padang set about preparing for the worst. Machine-gun posts were spotted throughout Padang, armored cars patrolled the streets, a heavy guard was thrown about the residence of every colonel...
...last week with every weapon still unknown to science. The futuristic dogfight took place in Buck Rogers, the comic pages' oldest and highest-flying extraterrestrial strip, which was launched into newspaper space 29 years ago by Chicago's National Newspaper Syndicate. A perennial hero to the space-gun set, Buck Rogers is flying higher than ever after falling from a prewar apogee of 136 client dailies in 1935 to a postwar perigee of 43 papers...