Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shooting and Policeman Campbell fell fatally wounded. An instant later his companions had avenged him and McGrath lay dying. Meanwhile, other policemen searched for Weirman. Finally they came upon him lying still on the ground. Desperado Weirman, seeing he could not escape, had put the muzzle of his riot gun in his mouth and blown out his brains...
...gun salute, "Ou la la, such a noise...
Month ago the Hungarian Government declared war on gun-toting criminals, made even "armed attempts on property" punishable by Death...
...Diego last December. A note stated that the castaways had struck into the interior 48 hr. earlier in search of food because they had exhausted the supply of coconuts near the beach, and that they would return about Nov. 4. The Camargo circled the island, firing her one-pound gun, blowing her whistle, got no response from shore. Then Mr. Fleischmann radioed the U. S. naval base at Balboa, C. Z., whence the gunboat Sacramento was despatched to Cocos Island with medical supplies, a powerful searchlight, equipment for a hazardous search of the island's trackless interior. From Cocos...
...plane only flies 150 kilometers an hour, whereas those of Mussolini can do 300. There are 900 of them and they all have orders to identify any suspicious plane and if necessary bring it down by machine gun fire. If Balbo [Italian air minister] has done his duty* they are there waiting for me. I shall be worth more dead than alive...