Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day the women returned, bearing wreaths and black flags; this time Puppet Premier Janos Kadar's newly revamped security police beat them back with gun butts. When some of the women took cover in the British legation, a Russian tank lumbered up and stuck its gun into the open door. In his iciest Foreign Office manner, First Secretary Christopher Cope told the tank commander that he needed no Russian protection from "our Hungarian friends." Another delegation of women entered the U.S. legation a couple of blocks away, with a plea for U.N. help. Four Russian tanks roared...
Backfire. In Chicago, after he burgled the Waltz Inn, got $6.95 and a .25-cal. automatic, Charles J. Walsh took the loot to a friend's house, accidentally shot himself in the leg while gloating over the gun, confessed all to cops who arrived to investigate the ruckus...
...working as hard as any other Communist to undermine democracy. "You can't kill all of us, Gomulka. You can't exterminate a whole people or crush its determination to be independent," Mikolajczyk told him on one occasion. Gomulka leaped from his chair, his hand on the gun he carried in his pocket, but Mikolajczyk calmly asked for a cigarette. Said Gomulka: "We'll get the people. And we'll get you." Two years later, Mikolajczyk was forced to flee into exile, and the only "democrats" left in the Polish government were Communist stooges...
This was too much. The Libyan government asked him to leave. The irrepressible colonel refused to. When Libyan police surrounded the Egyptian embassy, the colonel took up position on the roof with a machine gun, while leaflets poured out into the streets of Tripoli exhorting the citizens to protest. For three days the siege went on, with the colonel appearing at intervals on the roof to flourish his machine gun and peer hopefully down the street for rioting demonstrators to answer his call. None came, and Colonel Sadek disconsolately agreed to depart...
...multimillionaire art collector and sole owner of Switzerland's vast armaments-making Oerlikon Machine Tool Works; of a heart attack; in Zurich. German-born Weapons-Maker Buehrle, reputedly Switzerland's richest man, got his firm blacklisted during World War II by peddling his 20-mm. antiaircraft gun to the Axis...