Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place where a grave had been dug some days before. They were tortured in an effort to make them confess that they were planning a revolution and, when they naturally refused to confess a thing of which they were not guilty, they were murdered by a volley of machine gun bullets. . . . Shortly afterward, another group of guardsmen attacked the home of Sofonias Salvatierra, Minister of Agriculture, and killed Socrates Sandino, Augusta's brother, two men and a ten-year...
...Unable to explain the presence of the gun in his hand, yet feeling that something ought to be done about it, he began loading the chambers with a few odd cartridges he oddly discovered in his vest pocket. It was at this point that he felt a hand on his shoulder and a policeman's breath on the back of his neck...
...aftermath of the pacifist demonstration in the Yard on Friday came to light yesterday when it was noticed that part of the gun that has been parked downstairs in the Union for so long that it has begun to mould, had disappeared...
Slugged and beaten with blackjacks, brass knuckles, gun-butts and baseball bats were a housewife, a Kansas City Star newshawk, a candidate for the City Council, a chauffeur, a policeman, and five other persons...
...Lawrence: ". . . Suppose we were an influence (as we might be), an idea, a thing invulnerable, intangible, without front or back, drifting about like gas? . . . To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife. . . . The death of a Turkish bridge or rail, machine or gun, or high explosive was more profitable to us than the death of a Turk. . . . We could not afford casualties. . . . Our ideal was to keep his railways just working, but only just, with the maximum of loss and discomfort to him. . . . We used the smallest force in the quickest time...