Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really interim weapons. This is because both nations have them. Man will always seek the ultimate weapon. And you know what this is? The ultimate weapon is what the other fellow doesn't have. A Piper Cub would take care of the entire Roman army; one machine gun could have eliminated the hordes of Attila. These are ultimate weapons. And so would the control of space be. Man must establish the principle of the freedom of space as he has done with freedom of the seas. And like everything else, we can only establish this from a position...
...Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef, a Tunisian village only 700 yards from the Algerian border, were thronged. Shortly before noon, a flight of 25 French military aircraft-mostly U.S.-made fighters and light bombers-swept over the border. In precise military formation, they bombed the town, strafed the streets with machine-gun fire. When the planes turned back to their Algerian bases an hour later, the scabrous little village was a shambles. Nearly 80 dead and 79 wounded were recovered from the rubble. A school was bombed out and 34 children buried in the ruins. Two Red Cross trucks, distributing clothing...
While many Caracas publishers went along with the dictatorship, Capriles stretched his dangerous liberty to the point of mimeographing wire stories critical of the government and passing them to restive army officers. On New Year's Day, after the abortive air-force revolt at Maracay, submachine-gun-toting security police bundled Capriles off to jail, where he was later joined by his brother, Marco, Ultimas Noticias' circulation manager. Carlos, a third brother, fled to Colombia, while five top Capriles editors went into hiding or exile. By last week all were back at work in Caracas...
...Starkweather yanked open the driver's door and shot Collison nine times. Before he could drive off, another car pulled up. Geologist Joe Sprinkle, 40, thought there was an accident, stopped to help. Good Samaritan Sprinkle found a rifle at his head. He rushed the gun, grappled with Starkweather, got the rifle just as Deputy Sheriff William Romer happened by. Caril Fugate leaped out of the car and ran screaming to the deputy. In the confusion Starkweather climbed into his stolen Packard, sped away as Deputy Romer radioed ahead for a roadblock. Starkweather raced through the roadblock at better...
...started his day in routine fashion. He finished breakfast, casually went upstairs to the third-floor billiard room, where he usually played each day after breakfast. But instead of playing billiards, Bob Young took a double-barreled 20-gauge shotgun and sat in a chair. Carefully he set the gun between his knees, placed the barrels against his head, and pulled both triggers. He left no note, and shocked friends could only ask in amazement: "Why?" But close associates could readily see that in Bob Young's fabulous rise there lay also a reason for his suicide...