Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't only sentiment that kept the price up: there was also Constable Everett Earp (second cousin to Gunman Wyatt Earp, famed frontier marshal), who owns the place and keeps his real-estate office in the back. Earp removed the outdoor privy a couple of years ago, but the mule shoe that Father Truman nailed over the door the day Harry was born is still there. Earp explained: "I cut $5,000 off the price, if the state would allow the placement of a bronze plaque in the living room as a memorial to my mother and father...
Reconnaissance. In Denver, when Hotel Clerk P. C. Taylor told a would-be holdup man, "You'd better get out of here," the gunman retreated, whining: "I'll be back with someone who has more nerve than I have...
...private dining room of Detroit's uptown Rackham building, U.A.W.'s scrappy, redheaded President Walter Reuther, his right arm still in a splint from a gunman's shotgun blast (TIME, May 3, 1948), battled to the last minute to force Ford to terms. As the walkout began, Reuther tried to tell newsmen what the fight was all about...
...year ago last week, a gunman jumped from a black sedan in upper Manhattan, pumped three slugs into a boss stevedore named Tom Collentine, and got away. Along New York City's 771 miles of crime-ridden waterfront, the murder sent only a ripple of excitement. Most of the New York press gave the killing a good play and then went on to other news. But not the New York Sun. It set a man to digging out the story behind the story. Last week stocky, hard-digging Reporter Malcolm Malone ("Mike") Johnson got a well-earned Pulitzer Prize...
...head with bulbous nose, watery blue eyes and a patch of wispy hair made of brambles. This, explained Russia's famed Magician Kio, was the head of the U.S. To show his audience what went on inside the head, Kio unscrewed the top. In jumped a masked gunman in evening clothes (U.S. literature), a Western badman (Hollywood), two fat chorus girls (the U.S. theater) and three dwarfs (the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, a slanderer of the U.S.S.R...