Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victim jammed between two gunmen in a death car with pistols prodding his ribs ever felt more conscious of his position than did Eamon de Valera last week...
Encouraged by the way Britain's tough sea dogs were chasing Italy's new warships to cover, Greece timorously voiced defiance, but with a stiletto prodding her left side and Nazi gunmen aiming at her head, her shouts sounded like a terrified squeak...
Police shut him up. They didn't have to ask who he was. They knew: Vito Gurino, 33, ex-baker, top trigger man of the Brooklyn syndicate of small-time gunmen who, at bargain-basement prices (TIME, April 1), murdered underworld characters for rival gangs. They had been looking for him. Two of his bosses were in the death house at Sing Sing, two more were on trial, others awaiting trial for their part in the 83 murders chalked up against the syndicate by Irish William O'Dwyer, Brooklyn District Attorney...
...troop of Rumanian soldiers held Jimbola, and Army discipline was decisive. The soldiers stopped the taxi gunmen and the pursuing locomotive. Scared Carol got over the border into Yugoslavia with some 30 of his palace clique. He took with him in freight cars attached to the royal train three handsome motor cars and 30 truckloads of valuables...
...amiable old ladies, it appeared that the Communist Party might save itself a lot of trouble and perhaps some financial worries (such as the fine for criminal libel recently imposed on the Daily Publishing Co. following a suit by Mrs. Edith Liggett, widow of the Minneapolis publisher killed by gunmen in 1935). In the reflected innocence of New England respectability, the Worker's editors may be able to carry on their work as usual. That the principal object of the sale was to keep the Worker out of trouble was confirmed by Mrs. Woodruff. Said she: "If the Leftists...