Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman had seen a man's dark figure running across Reuther's backyard after the shot. Three boys had seen someone leap into an automobile-a red 1947 or 1948 Ford sedan-and drive madly away. By calculating the angle of fire, the cops decided that the gunman was 5 ft. 6 in. tall and righthanded. But who was he? Why had he fired...
...been bludgeoned, Gaitán fell, face down, and bloodstains widened on the sidewalk. A lottery vendor, standing in the doorway, dropped his book, grabbed the assassin and shouted: "This is the man." A café patron ran from another door, smashed a chair over the gunman's head...
...principle in the 1930s, when a bill was placed before the House of Commons to give British policemen extraordinary powers in order to fight native fascists. "I think it was a governess, a butcher's boy and a curate," said Pickthorn, "who got in the way of a gunman after he committed a murder recently; and there was Mr. Fisk, the Battersea bricklayer, who seized a gunman . . . and held on to him, though [Mr. Fisk] was almost shot to pieces. These are the real defenders of our liberty...
...neighbors, who used to watch dapper little James ("Occo") Tamer mowing his front lawn, didn't suspect that he was an ex-gunman and bank robber. The Detroit police knew. What's more, they had a pretty good idea that velvet-voiced little Jimmy (out of prison on parole) was Detroit's public enemy No.1-resident boss of the city's dope smugglers, policy operators, syndicate thieves (specializing in furs and jewelry) and bookmaking ring. He wasn't the kind of man who could do it all on his own: he was, the police were convinced...
...three teen-agers were tougher than anyone their age ought to be. One was a gunman, one a thief, one an incorrigible delinquent. All of them had made several escapes from Missouri's ill-famed Training School for Boys at Boonville and been recaptured. But they were not tough enough to take the n agging boredom of the bleak, brick-tiled isolation cell. Irritable and depressed, they yammered at each other...