Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obsequies. The crowd was so dense and so excited that police barred the palace gates against them, severed a bridge of boats across the Tigris lest it sink with the funeral procession under the weight of the multitude. King Feisal was entombed near the Parliament Building with a 99-gun salute...
Ollie Mitchell had the satisfaction of knowing that his 96 helped his Waltham Gun Club to win the Great Eastern team championship with 466, but most of the skeeters at Lordship last week felt a little less chipper about their scores when the results of the National Telegraphic Championship began to come in. The Izaak Walton League of Los Angeles had won the Telegraphic Team Championship with 473. Two Westerners-E. S. Neusch-wander of Los Angeles and George Debes of Houston-shooting under better weather conditions, had bettered Watts' 98 by one target each and Thomas Mairs...
...think. Mother had her movie camera going all the time, and was standing back of me. Well, the elephant came and came and came, followed by the herd. Klein yelled at him, hoping to turn him, but still he came. I had one shell left in my double-barreled gun, and shot at his head. Klein and Pete shot at the same time. I was off my balance. . . . My foot caught as I stepped back from the kick of the gun, and down I fell on my back in the thorn bushes. Now, two things happened as I fell: First...
...gunmen's jailbreak, 4) to disguise the fact that he is the sinister "Blight," the power behind the illicit drug traffic. To advance objective No. 1 he forces the young people's friend, a middle-aged keeper in the Tombs, to agree to smuggle guns to the three gunmen for a jailbreak. To advance objective No. 3, the keeper is to throw suspicion on the boy as having brought in the guns when he comes to the Tombs with a Christmas necktie for his jailbird brother. The second act, laid in the Tombs, shows a jailbreak roughly based...
When a heavy plane's tail is lifted, torque from the propeller or giving it the gun too quickly may slew the ship sideways for an instant, heavily taxing the pilot's skill to keep his course. That apparently happened to de Pinedo, and his skill failed. Not yet going fast enough to rise, his ship slewed sharply, heading straight for the field's administration building where 150 persons stood watching. Then it slewed further as though, foreseeing danger to many, de Pinedo chose disaster for himself alone. The thundering Bellanca crashed through a heavy wire fence...