Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...removal of the treasures from Nanking. Proofs of the final selection, made with the help of U.S. experts, were flown back to Formosa for color correction on the spot, and are now reproduced, most for the first time, in ART, Masterpieces of Chinese Art. CALIFORNIA'S political gun slingers were moseying around the state last week, setting up barricades for the inevitable shouting that will break out when Governor Goodwin Knight defends his job against tall-in-the-saddle U.S. Senator William Fife Knowland next year. Somebody is bound to get hit, and one somebody might be fellow Californian...
Just like the cowboys in the horse opera, California Republicans buckled on their shooting irons and got set for the biggest gubernatorial gun fight in all California history. The way the good guys and bad guys shaped up, there was no mistaking the real claim to be staked: Washington...
...there was nothing new to announce concerning his future plans. Yep, he and the missis were planning to take a vacation. And then he would "tour the state from the Oregon border to the Mexican border." Was this to be all one big vacation trip? Big Bill shifted his gun belt. "You can't," he said without cracking a smile, "combine a vacation with a campaign...
...Perry Dean Ross of nearby Tatum, the driver of the car, put it later in his signed confession: "I held the steering wheel with my left hand and laid the gun (a Mossberg .22 automatic rifle] across the left door. I was going about 85 miles per hour at the time and I fired nine shots into the cafe." One of the slugs entered the head of a 16-year-old Negro, John Earl Reese, who died the next morning. Two others struck and wounded a pair of Negro girls, 13 and 15. That was 18 months...
Like the gyrocompass, the gyroscopic ship stabilizer and the Mark 14 antiaircraft gun sight (developed by Dr. Draper and his associates at M.I.T. in 1941), Inertial Guidance is based on the familiar principle that keeps a child's gyroscopic top from falling: a rapidly spinning wheel will resist forces working to twist it from the plane in which it is revolving. A gyroscope sufficiently free of outside disturbances-e.g., friction-will maintain an unvarying spin axis in relation to the "fixed" stars-or any other points of reference-no matter on what path it is carried...