Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victims from ambush or tampered with their guns before he picked a fight; and he was not even fast on the draw. Jesse James, no matter what the legend says, never gave a buffalo nickel to the poor. Wes Hardin, the tiny Texan who was probably the most dangerous gunman in the West, was as mean as a mountain boomer; he had killed twelve men before he started to shave, and by the time he was mercifully shot in the back, at 42, he had slaughtered more than 40. The lawmen were not much better. Most of them were coldblooded...
National Nightmare. Entering Jaafra with their prisoners, the gunmen began firing their weapons in the air and crying: "We got blood!" But as rejoicing Moslems poured from the houses, another gunman said disgustedly: "We achieved nothing. We made a mistake. They are strangers...
When you flip through the highly polished pages of The New Yorker, you sometimes wonder whether a writer's facility leads you to forget that he has nothing to say. So, too, when you see a slickly-staged job of Shadow of a Gunman, you wonder whether Sean O'Casey invokes the world's enduring sentimentality for the Irish to obscure the fact that he dwells on an incident that seems trivial, an incident that is sadly pale when set beside the heroic achievements in human terror of which people have proven themselves so capable...
...black necktie," explains Diefendorfer, "and he's winning, Muster Dooley." Outraged, Marshal Dooley heaves Maverick out of town, has to repeat the performances twice more when Maverick keeps sneaking back. "We're sure getting some strange breeds in Ellwood lately," muses the marshal. "Remember that gunman who came through last week passing out business cards...
Unredeemed. In Fresno, Calif., a gunman tried to rob Sam's Fairway Grocery wearing a sheet of trading stamps over his face with stamps ripped out to make eye holes...