Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...navy. It is based on and is designed to support national policies and national interests." The admirals do not make those national policies and national interests or the wars each may beget. That is the political job of civilian statesmen. The admirals pull the trigger after the gun has been aimed for them...
...Force flag changed for the blue four-starred ensign of the Commander-in-Chief. Already he could anticipate the ceaseless naval communications on onion skin paper addressed not to COMBATFOR. his old title, but to CINCUS, his new one. Already he could hear the crash of the 17-gun salute that will be his due. Already he could taste the exultation, feel the awful responsibility of being his country's first officer afloat...
...companions went there, lay in ambush, all on one side of the road to avoid a crossfire. One of the Texas deputies sighted a car speeding toward them at 85 m.p.h. It slowed down to pass a truck. The officers shouted an order to halt. Barrow reached for a gun. The officers fired. The car careened into an embankment. The fusillade continued: 167 shots. 50 of which hit the occupants. Barrow was found with the door of the car half-open and a sawed-off shotgun in his hand. Bonnie Parker, wearing a red dress, was doubled up with...
...sure you all have read How they rob and steal, And how those who squeal, Are usually found dying or dead. . . . If they try to act like citizens And rent them a nice little flat, About the third night they are invited to fight By a submachine gun rat-tat-tat. Some day they will go down together, And they will bury them side by side. To a jew it means grief, To the law it's relief, But it is deafh to Bonnie and Clyde.* But they did not bury them side by side, because Bonnie...
...decade. Thence he pounded his way into the Bay of Whales where six years later Richard Evelyn Byrd established a base at Little America. Once again Captain Larsen made whaling history, by arriving on a Christmas Eve. Four days later he took the first whale ever shot by gun in the Ross...