Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joined the British side and declared war on the Axis. In 1948 they murdered Cairo's police chief, and when Premier Mahmoud Fahmy el Nokrashy bravely outlawed the Brotherhood, they murdered Nokrashy as well. Two months later el Banna paid for his crimes: an auto load of gunmen shot him down in broad daylight on a Cairo street. The movement went underground.When it legally emerged again in 1951, its popular resistance to King Farouk and the British gained it many fellow travelers, among them a young colonel named Gamel Abdel Nasser and a general named Mohammed Naguib...
...reporter for the newspaper O Momento in the provincial capital of Goiania (pop. 55,430), Haroldo Gurgel, 22, knew that he had made some powerful political enemies. When he left his hotel one morning last week, four gunmen jumped him, dragged him to the city's central square. There, before a crowd of horror-stricken townspeople, they pushed Gurgel against a wall, pistol-whipped him half-unconscious, then pumped twelve bullets into him as he tried to crawl away. Two men who tried to help him were wounded. After that, the murderers calmly pocketed their pistols and strolled away...
...expected the bloodshed that followed next day. Outrage flared throughout the state and nation. Students went on strike. Bar and press associations demanded justice. Only then did Governor Teixeira publicly disclaim responsibility for the murder and order, Arantes removed from his post. But the power commissioner and his gunmen had already left town...
Sales Resistance. In Baltimore, while Insurance Agent Manuel Hyman was trying to sell him a policy covering losses from holdups, Liquor Store Proprietor William Gross was held up by three gunmen, still couldn't decide whether to buy a policy...
...could mistake this faintly fussy, professorial-looking character for a man of the people. Yet he has written some of the most authentic Americana of his time, and numbers among his friends prizefighters, Chicago gunmen, waitresses, and a gambler who is a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. Full of bubble and bounce, he has the ready grin of the seasoned meeter-of-people. He puts on no airs, and has an immense interest in human beings, young and old, whom he treats with fatherly didacticism ("I should scold you very severely," he told a girl of a few minutes' acquaintance...