Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tried to whip up backers for his claim that Little Rock had been about to erupt into violence at the start of integrated classes. Example: he called in a Little Rock city official, displayed a schoolbook with a square section of pages cut out ("Just right for hiding a gun"), and a few water pistols ("The Negroes were gonna fill them with acid and shoot at the white kids"). The city official, far more impressed by Faubus' political power than by the "evidence," signed a statement supporting Faubus...
...breakfast the morning after. Shortly before midnight Marshal Sarit's brand-new U.S. tanks and weapons carriers had taken up positions controlling Bangkok's key traffic arteries. Efficient little Thai infantrymen, troops of Sarit's crack 1st Division, set up mortar and machine-gun emplacements, and over the radio came the first of a series of orders from Sarit and the new government...
Stookey related that he was working late in the office when the two Negroes knocked at his door. They asked information about someone in the building, and Stookey turned his back to look up the data. As he turned around, one of the Negroes brandished a gun and the other started to search him for money...
...became a full-time explorer. The rest of The Man Who Presumed tells the fabulous schoolboy stories of Stanley's later explorations of Equatorial Africa-stirring tales of hardship and struggle, replete with flying spears, poisoned arrows, and many a gentle rebuke from Stanley's elephant gun. Before Stanley died peacefully in bed in 1904, he seemed compelled again and again to try to re-enact his first and greatest triumph. He was a one-man missing-persons bureau when he went after Emin Pasha (real name: Eduard Schnitzer), German-born governor of a British-controlled province...
...Suit. In Miles City, Mont., a gun-toting, billy-waving, uniformed bogus patrolman halted motorists, demanded cash bonds for imaginary violations, brushed off requests for receipts by saying that fines are not deductible for income tax purposes...