Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just on the stroke of midnight in an underground barbershop in Times Square, Martin Krompier, Flegenheimer's right-hand man, found himself staring at a figure with a drawn gun. The gunman blew a hole in the ceiling to warn other occupants of the shop to scatter. Then he plugged Krompier four times...
...Awash last week, at the edge of the spidery railroad bridge crossing the Awash River (see cut), a Swiss machine gun expert named Whittley was working like mad to protect the only railway in Ethiopia at its most vulnerable point. For this purpose he had at his disposal a carload of Swiss anti-aircraft machine guns of the latest model, all the ammunition he required, and a thousand black soldiers who were the worst shots Expert Whittley had ever seen. Finally he figured out a system to offset his gun crews' miserable marksmanship...
...failures in his 34 years. As his biographer, Alva Johnston, has pointed out. Rose has become one of the shrewdest characters in the cut-throat life of the metropolis by sheer quickness of thinking. He won grade-school medals for sprinting by learning to jump the starter's gun without detection. Later Rose's instinct for what pleases the masses made him one of the most successful song writers of the times, turning out the words for such tunes as Barney Google, You've, Got to See Mama Every Night, Without a Song. After he became Comedienne...
...General Graziani, was fighting harder and making more progress. Roads meant nothing in this rolling desert country where the advance was from water hole to water hole. Each hole was held by a little group of fanatical natives ready to charge and die at the first bang of a gun. It was slow and bloody business. General Graziani finally called out his bombing planes. Soon it was reported that the Italians were using a new, yellowish gas on the terrified Ethiopians...
...submarine campaign which so seriously hindered American commerce that it was considered an affront to our neutrality. The viewpoint of that day is illustrated by Wilson's proposal to Congress. He recommended that a law be passed to enable all ships in the American Merchant Marine to mount guns and carry appropriate gun crews. America's neutrality was something which must be maintained by force of arms. What happened is history...