Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cheek journalism applied to stories such as Mussolini's Jew-baiting in the same issue is more effective than open condemnation. However, applied in the wrong place, as TIME did very obviously in its yarn on the use of "moteur canon" (i.e., hollow propeller shafts hurling machine gun bullets or small calibre shells) in aerial warfare, it is little more than an exhibition of Munchausen or Fibber McGee extravaganza...
...waters of the Pacific rolled blue and calm one day last week as a gunner aboard the U. S. S. Wyoming, engaged in war games off San Clemente Island, took his ramrod to seat a shell in the breech of a 5-in. gun which was participating in a barrage to cover a landing party of Marines. The gunner's thrust was his last. As he shoved home the shell, up with a roar went the breech in a great red flare of flame and blood against the blue. "I saw one boy sort of drift past me," recounted...
Apparently the fuse cap on the shell's nose, which detonates it when it strikes its target, had exploded prematurely. When the smoke cleared, the captain and three members of the Marine gun crew were dead, three others lay dying, ten were injured. The 26-year-old Wyoming, demilitarized and used as a training ship since the London Naval Armament Limitation Conference of 1930, is the Navy's second oldest battleship. A court of inquiry promptly met to investigate the Navy's second fatal explosion on the San Clemente training grounds within seven months. The Navy...
...summer of 1889. By that time, the U. S. Attorney General had heard of Terry's threats, provided Justice Field with a bodyguard. He was U. S. Deputy Marshal David Neagle, remembered as "a man of small stature but strong, left-handed and quick with a gun." He was standing by when Sarah Terry and her husband entered the station restaurant, spied Justice Field at a table. Mrs. Terry turned on her heel, left the room. The 66-year-old onetime Chief Justice of California's Supreme Court walked quietly up behind the 72-year...
...When the gun goes off starting the one-mile race at the Garden tomorrow, what should turn out to be one of the best distance races ever seen in this meet will be under way. Johnny Meadon, the captain of the Big Red team, will be seeking to repeat the victory he gained last year; but he will be pushed hard by his teammate Wreck Welch and Alex Northrop of Harvard. Last year's winning time was 4:27.6, and a week ago Welch took the mile against Yale in 4:27.6, running without spikes on a bank-loss track...