Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lived a staff of Negro slaves who waited on them hand & foot. In the other, the squire tinkered with his physical experiments. Beautiful Mrs. Blennerhassett, in a habit of red velvet and gold lace, galloped over the island and mainland on horseback or pointed her myopic husband's gun for him on hunting expeditions. And then one day in 1805 Mr. Blennerhassett met a man as eccentric and mercurial as himself, retiring U. S. Vice President Aaron Burr...
...Addis Ababa observed, that Italian bombing planes, now well within operating range, not only had not bombed Ethiopia's Capital up to last week but had not even bombed Harar, where the local Ethiopian satrap was having suspected traitors flogged to death. Repeatedly second-string correspondents jumped the gun with rumors which produced last week such headlines as "350,000 ETHIOPIANS DEFEATED IN BATTLE...
Down a runway at Wright Field, Dayton, one day last week roared the huge Boeing 299, largest landplane ever built in the U. S., on a routine test flight for a possible Army contract (TIME, July 15). Because the 70-ft., metalclad monster with its four machine-gun turrets, 6-ton bomb capacity and speed of 256 m.p.h. was regarded as the greatest battle plane ever designed, two young officers, Lieutenants Leonard F. Harman and Robert K. Giovannoli, looked up with interest as it fled past them down the field. Suddenly, when the four-motored plane was nearly...
...believe the Government should be given due credit for robbing everybody with the utmost impartiality. . . . The methods of the tax collector are largely those of the gangster and gunman. You cannot argue with the tax collector any more than with any other racketeer. The Treasury Department holds a gun to your head and you either come across or get taken for a ride...
...time I'll know I have him.' So I took both hands and I leaned over him and I took dead aim right between his eyes and I pulled the trigger. Then I saw the blood spurt and I knew I had him. Then I put my gun down in my jeans and I took out the streetcar a aimin' to go to Kentucky to my pappy's. . . . But first I had me a bite...