Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would appear, according to Dr. Parkes. that King Vittorio Emanuele's 10,000-ton, 8-inch gun cruisers of the Pola class could outduel King George's London class cruisers of similar tonnage and gun calibre because the Italian ships with a speed of 35 knots are from two to three knots faster than their British peers and much better equipped with anti-aircraft guns. After running the long gamut from submarines to capital ships and pulling a long face the whole way, Dr. Parkes comfortably quoted a remark made to him by a distinguished British admiral: "The Italians build...
...shoved a small revolver against his right side, pulled the trigger. There was a muffled explosion. One of the Long bodyguards grappled with the assassin. He fired again, searing the bodyguard's thumb. Then the young man in the white suit went down under a rain of submachine gun bullets...
...promoter off in a special launch, assigned a squad of detectives to guard him as he hurried from the canal area to Egypt proper. At the barrier an Egyptian officer snapped to salute and Francis M. Rickett drove off escorted by a motorcade of Egyptian troops, with a machine-gun car leading on the three-hour run to Cairo where he put up at the swank Continental Hotel. Announcing he would soon board an Imperial Airways liner for London, regal Rickett gloated...
...lack of parallelism was abundantly apparent last week. Most important order issued was that none of the troops was to bring any real ammunition to the games lest somebody be shot. Each day special blank cartridges were issued: ten rounds per rifle, 100 rounds per machine gun, four rounds per field piece. Even for that modest schedule half a million rounds of ammunition were required...
...Women's Champion was Mrs. Lela Hall of East Lynne, Mo. Tiny (100 lb.), determined and a dead shot with a twelve-gauge gun that nearly kicked her off her feet, she broke 191 targets, four better than her closest rival...