Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part of the Managua arsenal has exploded," the President told correspondents "The sound of the exploding ammunition was like machine gun fire but the entire country is peaceful. no cause for alarm...
...TIME does not know that not a single delegate to the constitutional convention came on the floor of the convention or even appeared in the territorial Capitol with either a belt of cartridges or pistol upon his person, or gun in his baggage...
...Oklahoma City, Oilmen Charles F. Urschel and Walter R. Jarrett were playing bridge on a porch with their wives when two black-haired bandits sneaked up with a machine gun. "Don't move or well blow your heads off!" cried one. "Which is Urschel?" No one answered. "Well, come along, we'll take both of you," he said. An hour later the kidnappers dumped Jarrett, unscathed, out of their car ten miles from town, sped away with Urschel. Mrs. Urschel, rich widow of the late Thomas B. Slick, "king of oil wildcatters" whose fortune once exceeded...
While Messina waved a revolver. Senator Long charged Photographer Williams, managed to break the flashlight bulb on his camera. Fists doubled, he turned on the Times-Picayune's Reporter Samuel Lang. Quick-witted, the reporter called out: "Get a picture of Messina with his gun out!" Hastily the bodyguard pocketed his gun, fled from sight. Then Reporter Lang challenged : "Come on and hit me if you want to, Senator, your gunman's gone now." Senator Long stopped. looked around, dropped his hands. "I don't want to hit you," he snarled and ran aboard the Crescent Limited...
While Messina waved a revolver. Senator Long charged Photographer Williams, managed to break the flashlight bulb on his camera. Fists doubled, he turned on the Times-Picayune's Reporter Samuel Lang. Quick-witted, the reporter called out: "Get a picture of Messina with his gun out!" Hastily the bodyguard pocketed his gun, fled from sight. Then Reporter Lang challenged : "Come on and hit me if you want to, Senator, your gunman's gone now." Senator Long stopped. looked around, dropped his hands. "I don't want to hit you," he snarled and ran aboard the Crescent Limited...