Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suddenly the Israeli Arabs fell silent as those on the Jordan side of the wire sang a mournful song. The bridal procession, just about to turn away, halted. As the song faded, the gun-toting border guards of both sides all at once seemed to have shoelaces to lace up or some other reason for averting their eyes. Quickly Zariphe reached across the barbed wire to Fatma...
...night last week prosperous Nino Cottone, 52, returning home late, gently backed his little Fiat station wagon into the drive of his summer villa. He had just locked the car when he was bowled along the driveway by two streams of machine-gun bullets. As his family and friends poured out of their houses, Nino painfully lifted up his bullet-ridden body and stumbled to the threshold of his villa, where, leaning against the door, he died on his feet as a good Sicilian should...
...money." Diffenderfer said one student had said to him: "I dislike the U.S. and propose to publish a newspaper attacking the U.S.," and had then asked: "Will the foundation lend me the money?" Diffenderfer replied: "If you're coming to shoot me, why should I give you a gun?" "To prove," answered the student, "that you really do believe in free speech, as you claim...
...farmland a few yards from the Jordan border. The U.N.'s Lieut. Colonel Erik Helge Thalin, a Swede, and Major Miller Envit, a Dane, jeeped forward to check on the shooting. A Jordan villager, enraged over the recent death of a near relative, opened fire with a Sten gun and seriously wounded Colonel Thalin. Three days later Svend Rasmussen, a Danish radio technician, was killed by an anti-vehicle mine laid on a frontier path used only by U.N. observers...
Most everybody proclaims taciturn Glenn a local hero except his wife (Jeanne Crain), who mutters darkly of Glenn's troubled past (seems his father was shot by a fast gun) and the evils of gunslinging. Next day Glenn offers up his weapon on the church altar, explaining that he must skip town because "trouble collects around a fast gun." Too late. Enter bellicose Brod, hankering to drill Glenn. As the congregation sings Holy, Holy, Holy, Glenn dutifully straps on his holster for the showdown. As Miss Crain mumbles after the fireworks, "I guess that takes care of everything...