Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Haskel, killer for hire, was a mighty surprised man. He had been paid to ride up to South Pass, Wyo. and plug a troublesome cowboy named Lincoln Bradway. But when the two men drew and fired, Gunman Haskel "uttered a loud yell of pain and dismay . . . Clapping his hands to his big paunch he sank to his knees, swayed and slowly collapsed a few yards from the sidewalk...
...when Calarco started around the counter with the money the boy suddenly fired the .22. The bullet missed the proprietor, noisily smashed a bottle of Corby's whisky on a corner shelf. The girl in the doorway ran, and the young gunman bolted after her. Calarco gave chase, caught the boy out on the street and tried to grab the pistol. It went off three times as they wrestled, and the third shot hit Calarco in the throat. Tommy Cook galloped, panting, to the car and was driven off with a screech of tires. Calarco died...
...after suffering major reverses in Greece and Crete, he was transferred to India (1941), where he organized the defense against the Japanese invasion threat. A soldier's soldier, he once said that the combat infantryman, should combine the arts of "a successful poacher, at cat-burglar and a gunman...
...their spare time, Luc's fellow teenagers introduce him to a dream world in which the models are Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. (Fourteen-year-old Josette practices screaming into the wind until her voice approximates the right cracked huskiness; Luc tries to imitate Gunman Bogart.) Off & on, Luc sits in on an interminable argument between Black-Marketeer Vanderputte and a friend on the police force who comes to visit him every week. Vanderputte stands up for the dignity of man and humanitarian optimism; the police official, Kuhl, stands up for Communism and the need for iron discipline. Vanderputte...
...Binaggio had his bodyguard Nick Penna drive him over to the Last Chance Tavern, a gambling joint which straddles the Missouri-Kansas line so that when the heat is on in one state, the dice tables can be shoved over into the other. There he met Charlie Gargotta, a gunman who was his chief "enforcer." Soon they left. Penna got up to go along. "You don't need to. come, Nick," said Binaggio. "We'll be'back in 15 or 20 minutes...