Word: gunpoint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seoul residents said that in late February and early March the Communists ordered all men aged 15 to 40 and women 16 to 25 to go north. When the Red rearguards pulled out, they took food and clothing at gunpoint from the Koreans who remained. Last autumn the Communists had taken the best bifeins from Seoul -doctors, teachers and other professionals. This time they took the able-bodied and healthy, leaving the old, the children and the sick...
Still, Small Voice. In Los Angeles, a thug entered Delfin Cosio's liquor shop, took $60 and a bottle of whisky at gunpoint, returned five minutes later to deposit his loot on the counter, said: "Give me a break. I don't know what happened...
Yankee depredations have forced Cooper to become an outlaw, at least in the eyes of the scoundrels who administer justice. Out of a gunpoint encounter, he strikes up a friendship with an upright dude (Leif Erickson) from Boston who has become a U.S. marshal in Dallas. Cooper takes over Erickson's identity and fancy duds, his official mission and, at length, even his girl (Ruth Roman...
Money Isn't Everything. In Alexandria, Va., someone broke into the New Majestic Cafe, fried himself a steak, left $100 in the cash register untouched. In Providence Township, Pa., an armed thug visited Mrs. Doris Walton, ordered scrambled eggs, sat down with her to watch television-at gunpoint-for three hours...
...dark, heavy-set U.S. soldier at the wheel and the slight, fair-haired soldier on the right cowered an Austrian civilian named Oswald Eder. "Where are you taking me?" he cried. The smaller soldier jammed a gun into his ribs and snarled: "Shut up!" The jeep stopped, and at gunpoint, his escorts forced Eder into the waiting arms of seven Russian agents who set upon him with fists and revolver butts...