Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shoot me first!" screamed Viscountess Saito darting forward and clapping her hand over the muzzle of the nearest machine gun. Instantly both trigger fingers clenched and the double roar of ZUG-ZUG-ZUG began. Bloody was the brave Viscountess' hand as her lord, the Admiral and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal crumpled and died under the murderous fusillade...
...madness of killers; everybody connected with his crime must be silenced before he can feel safe. Mio and Miriamne are hopelessly entangled in this web of social injustice and human madness and for them there is but one moment of ecstatic communion before the staccato beat of the machine gun snaps their bonds...
Most gratifying progress made so far has been in the matter of fuel. Since a rocket is like an upward moving gun firing continuously at the ground, it was natural for the first experimenters to use gunpowder. But powder burned unevenly and it was extremely dangerous. The new technique is to use liquid oxygen and a liquid fuel such as gasoline or alcohol, which do not mix until the rocket is ready to go off. Such a mixture develops energies ten times greater than...
...alley back of his Minneapolis apartment house at 5:41 o'clock one afternoon last December, Editor Walter Liggett was riddled by five machine-gun slugs. Liggett's weekly tabloid, Mid-West American, had made a business of regularly denouncing the "alliance" between the underworld and Minneapolis and Minnesota officialdom. More recently, he had violently broken with his old political crony, Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson. Editor Liggett's murder, therefore, put Governor Olson in something of a spot, whence he attempted to extricate himself by joining Liggett's widow in asking...
Pinned with 310 medals of the Royal Victorian Order were the 300 sailors who drew the gun carriage on which His late Majesty's remains were borne to the grave and their ten officers...