Word: gunfighting
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...Justo, 35, avowed Marxist and admirer of Castro, was dead, along with 14 of his comrades. Five others were captured. At first, Tavárez Justo's death was called a suicide, but later the government said that he had been shot to death in a gunfight with the soldiers. All 15, said the communique, were buried on the spot in a common grave...
...night two weeks ago, police laid a roadside ambush for two longtime Lechin lieutenants, Federico Escobar and Irineo Pimentel, who were wanted on a series of charges ranging from embezzlement to manslaughter. After a blazing gunfight, the two union men were dragged off to jail. When word of the arrests reached the mines, raging workers surged through the streets, tossing sticks of dynamite into...
...Forced underground in the mid-'30s, he ran into a police trap one night, escaped only after a blazing gunfight...
...Times, University of Illinois Graduate Chancellor, now 33, joined NBC news in 1950, went around Chicago in a mobile unit painted like a police car and equipped with a flashing red light and siren. He chased cop calls, once sprawled on the pavement and narrated a gunfight with bullets whanging overhead, also covered an oil refinery fire, continuing his broadcast even while running through falling debris, although his voice went up about seven octaves en route...
Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). The week's hottest gunfight: a re-creation of The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca, an upright youth who gunned down a rampaging mob for 33 hours to bring order to a small New Mexico town...