Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cancer of the throat, stepped into a basement room furnished only with an improvised table, a mirror and an awesome machine. Technicians arranged the cancer victim on the table while Dr. Roger A. Harvey peered through the strange machine's ring sights (like those on an aircraft machine gun) at the patient's neck. When the apparatus was aimed just right, the technicians left the room...
...head of a baby in a nearby yard and Craig went back inside his rooms, slammed the door and waited for the inevitable squad car. When the cops arrived he answered their yell of "Open up!" by firing three shots through the door. That started the biggest and noisiest gun battle in recent Chicago history...
Socially, the President of the Philippines had his fill. In the U.S. for a five-day flying visit, President Elpidio ("Pidi-ong") Quirino was met at National Airport by Harry Truman and a 21-gun salute. He spent a night at Blair House, addressed the House and Senate, whirled through Washington cocktail parties into a ticker-tape welcome in New York, where he lunched with Cardinal Spellman and picked up an honorary doctorate from Fordham. Said he of steaming Manhattan: "The weather ... is very poor...
...rebels, having lost most of their fanatical, hard-core Communist capetánios, pressed even children and old men into service. Said a Communist artillery commander who last week surrendered along with his Tommy-gun-toting mistress: "How could one have faith in an army of young boys and girls and of old men leaning on their sticks...
...Scatter-Gun. Meriweather lived in a cellar until he developed a "skyscraper shadow complexion," and he dieted rigorously on Martinis, barbiturates and tongue-on-rye. Thus able to pass as a Northerner, Ol´ Fearless invaded Manhattan. His grim findings: gangsters, muggings, class warfare, prejudice, "rapine and horrible death ... at every turnstile...