Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shot in the air. I hoped that in the resulting confusion I could get a clear view of the Prince and be able to kill him with a well-aimed shot. The second shot I missed. Suddenly my hat blew off, I felt so ridiculous that I threw my gun away...
Besides the long signal drill in which all the players got individual instruction on the plays, yesterday's practice also included the first pass defense drill that the backs have had this year. The linemen had a long session on timing in which Coach Horween used a starter's gun to get the men off with the snap of the ball...
...that "the Red army has had enough practice in retreating," ordered the Blues to show their practice in retreat. At week's end maneuvers ended in a perfect holocaust of fire. Soldiers, determined not to carry any heavy ammunition back to barracks blazed away with enthusiasm. One machine gun crew ripped off belts of blank cartridges with such gusto that it was only after being surrounded by a squad of "enemy" soldiers and rebuked by several staff officers that they would take off their steel helmets, play dead...
Author Burnett, who usually writes on such timely topics as gangsters or prizefighters, this time has gone back to the days of the Western two-gun men. Partly historical, his graphic narrative smells more of gunpowder than of the lamp. Says he: "This story ... is based on the events leading up to and arising out of the Earp-Clanton feud. This famous old feud is still hotly discussed in the southeastern corner of Arizona...
...color scheme? See it for the first time on a summer's day of blithe blue air, with white clouds flying, and you will think it a bit of sky caught by the wings and pinioned up aloft there white of cloud, blue of heaven, and gold of the gun. Hellenic, too; for these are the colors which everywhere in Greece fill the eye and flood the mind...