Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unsurpassed by men of any race, drove some of the Chinese and some of the Japanese battling at Shanghai last week to supreme efforts, almost unbelievable but reported by correspondents who said they saw what happened. Japanese soldiers, facing Chinese barbed wire entanglements covered at close range by Chinese guns, walked slowly into the wire carrying dynamite, drew upon themselves a Chinese fire which weakened the Chinese entanglements little by little. Among "somewhat wounded" Chinese soldiers (men with perhaps an arm shot off or an eye shot out), a spontaneous movement rose to volunteer as "human bombs." Such a Chinese...
...many cucumbers, but one day an enormous dish was served up with his compliments. The officers choked with laughter. After the Russian Revolution, when the jealous greenhouse-keeper became executioner of the Tribunal of that town, whenever prisoners, especially officers, were condemned, he would read the sentence, load his gun, fire it straight between their eyes. But the cartridge was always a blank. After he had "laughed heartily over his joke, the prisoners would be disposed of in the regular...
...affirmed the statement that no innocent person in his opinion, has ever been executed in Massachusetts for a crime he did not commit. The notorious "Bullet Number 3", responsible for the death of Parmenter, in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, was found to be grooved from a pit in the gun barrel, probably caused by rust. Such a pit was found in the gun of Sacco, and test slugs fired from it by investigators, here abrasions which a long series of tests showed to coincide with those of the murderer's bullet...
...blocks of all automatic pistols, such as the Colt employed by Sacco, are filed by hand, each gun leaves a characteristic cartridge impression which can be identified "as accurately as a finger-print." Sharp-eyed police picked up a cartridge near the scene of the crime that bore the "fingerprint" of Sacco's gun block. Sacco not only was found with the weapon on his person but admitted owning it for a long time, stating that he had taken it from home just "to keep the children from playing with it." This evidence, not properly stressed at the trial, undoubtedly...
After the heavy barrage laid down by The Decline of the West, Philosopher Spengler, cannonader of despair, now uses a single big gun to finish off what scattered hopes remain. His Big Bertha may scare swivel-chair warriors at H. Q., but it goes way over the heads of the boys doing the fighting up in front...