Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unswerving efforts in the Supreme Court fight and the Purge were known to be based more on loyalty than conviction, he stands almost as well with anti-Administrationists. Irish, homely, blunt, honest Joe Keenan has a few enemies, but they are mostly behind bars or under sod, like Machine-Gun Kelly...
...Rocket Ship, space gun which gives customers the illusion of being shot beyond the stratosphere...
Minister Rodríguez scooted back to Lima, gathered a handful of followers, largely Government employes from his own ministry, and marched into the Government Palace. He summoned the Army officer in command of the palace machine-gun squad. "I am assuming the Executive post since General Benavides is leaving Peru," announced the Minister. "Hand over your command." The officer pretended to accept the order. Once outside the palace, however, he quickly telephoned the President's home, informed General Benavides' aides of the coup, then locked himself in the palace observation tower and trained his machine guns...
...Fast-talking Antonio Rodríguez explained that he had taken over the chief executive's job because Benavides had sailed for Europe. "That is untrue," replied the Sergeant Major. Minister Rodríguez, according to the official version of the story, lunged for the officer's gun. It cracked twice and Rodríguez fell dead...
...bomb consisted of a soda bottle filled with gun-powder, buckshot, and newspaper. There was a fuse attached to the explosives, but the fuse was a piece of string which burned out before the fire reached the bottle...