Word: gunfighting
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...capital, 197 miles away. Armed guards rode each car. One night a stick of dynamite exploded without serious damage under an arms train, presumably set by anti-Communist Guatemalan exiles who had come over the Honduras border, 15 miles away. Tracing the fuse, soldiers wound up in a gunfight. One sergeant and one saboteur were killed...
October, 1935: Nationalist bomb police car in San Piedras. Police kill four Nationalist after gunfight...
...Manila, flooded with evacuees from surrounding provinces, jittery citizens discussed a gunfight in the suburbs, rumors that the city itself might be attacked. "To think," cried an office girl, "that Tyrone Power is in Manila! What will he think of the Filipinos? Why doesn't the President do something...
...Gunfight. When the party reached the tiny, treeless Plaza San Martin, dominated by an equestrian statue of the Argentine hero, two military policemen rounded the corner. A shot was fired. More soldiers raced up, more bullets flew. Echandia and some of his followers dropped to the ground; others scrambled behind the statue. After five minutes, an army officer pulled up in a car and stopped the shooting...
...unbroken silence have the quality of noonday sunlight on an empty plain. Other refreshing and honest touches: the homely treatment of four frontier chippies (including Gloria Grahame); the persuasively intimate feel of the western countryside; the sensitive cinematic handling of sound and movement in a slow, hide-and-seek gunfight on a mountain slope...