Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What seems most important to TIME is that he came back with a gun...
Barcelona, conquered month ago by the Rebel Armies, was last week given its first look since the beginning of the war at the No. 1 Rebel, Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Early one morning a 21-gun salute roared out from Montjuich fortress as Generalissimo Franco, accompanied by his Moorish guard, motored into the centre of the city. Taking his place on a stand on Barcelona's large and battered Via Diagonal, now appropriately renamed Avenida del Caudillo (Avenue of the Chief) for El Caudillo Franco, the Generalissimo reviewed units of the seven Army corps that had taken part...
...followers opened fire and before the Army forces could machine gun them into submission three policemen, a pedestrian and four rebels were killed, nearly a dozen wounded. Strong Man Benavides and his Ministers called off their holiday, rushed back to Lima in time to supervise the disposition of the bodies...
...stop indiscriminate selling of hunting licenses, John H. Baker, executive director of the National Association of Audubon Societies, proposed examinations comparable to automobile drivers' tests. An applicant, he mildly suggested, should be made to show his knowledge of how to load, carry, fire and unload a gun, prove his ability to read game laws and posted signs, know by sight the game birds and animals in his vicinity...
...Lutz and Heckel came close to matching his dazzling efforts. Sporting a 20 to 16 half-time lead the Quakers were not threatened until the final two minute. But then they had to stall frantically as the Crimson closed the gap to only 38 to 35 just before the gun barked...