Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Providence's inability to hit the basket, Harvard was only one point behind at the half which ended seven to six. After Shapiro and Kutniewski had gained a substantial lead for Providence in the second half, the Crimson attempted a rally, but it was soon halted by the gun...
Four days later Governor Winship was greeted at San Juan with a 17-gun salute. Shunning his predecessor's mistakes, in his inaugural address he advanced no grandiose schemes, recorded himself as against the dismissal of efficient officials for political reasons, then went into a huddle with his Cabinet...
...great "AaaOOf," as he plunged down on Bessie's head. "Come out!" screamed his eight assistants to Beatty. He flicked a whip at the cageful of pedestaled lions & tigers, took the chance of turning his back on them, jumped into the fight. Bang! Bang! Crack! His blank gun, whip and chair were useless. Assistants trained a suffocating fire-hose stream on the fighters. Sammy had his great jaws deep in Bessie's throat. Trainer Beatty grabbed a piece of iron pipe, wrapped his fingers in Sammy's mane, whacked him again & again over the head. After...
...that body's approval of a $286,000,000 Naval appropriation bill which provided not only 2,800 more seamen and 1,000 additional marines for the 16 new ships which will be completed in the next 17 months but also funds for beginning another 8-in. gun cruiser and three more 6-in. gun cruisers. Including PWA money, $442,000,000 will be spent on the Navy in fiscal 1935. When later in the week the House passed the Naval appropriation bill without change, Admiral Standley could boast that the Navy with 58 new ships would at last...
...tourist camp police picked up tall, scholarly Harry Pierpont (jailbreaker & murderer) who went with them meekly, suddenly pulled two guns when they tried to handcuff him, was subdued. In a radio store they picked up Charles Makley (jailbreaker, murderer, bank robber), busy buying a short wave set to get police alarms. In a city apartment they collared Russel Clark (same occupations), before he got his gun. Few hours later they seized John Dillinger (gang leader, police killer) as he arrived with a submachine gun under his coat...