Word: gunpoint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rich cacao plantations. Paris became the mecca of the planters, while back home the nation and the people lost ground, literally, to grabby neighbors: 26,000 sq. mi. to Brazil in 1904; 62,000 sq. mi. to Colombia in 1916; 79,000 sq. mi. to Peru in 1942, at gunpoint. By 1949, the nation had tried 15 constitutions, 44 presidents, only 10 of whom lasted out full terms...
Queens Wild. In Clovis, N. Mex., Mrs. Hazel Ferguson, irked at her husband for joining a late night card party, stalked into the game with pistol in hand, fired a shot into the floor, lined up the players against the wall, marched her errant husband home at gunpoint, next day was fined $25 for discharging a firearm within the city limits...
...Scramble. In the dictator's final scramble for safety, ferries, yachts, airliners and private planes were jammed. One Cubana Airlines pilot, at gunpoint, flew 92 refugees to New York just before armed civilians seized the Havana airport. To the Dominican Republic, besides Batista, went Andrés Rivero Aguero, Batista's puppet President-elect, who was supposed to take office Feb. 24. (Another Ciudad Trujillo resident: Argentina's exiled Dictator Juan Perón.) The Jacksonville club included national Police Chief Pilar Garcia, worst of the terrorists, and Army Chief of Staff Francisco Tabernilla, whose unseemly wealth...
...Kresge (5 & 10? stores) and Paul Hexter (son-in-law of car-rental Tycoon John Hertz). The Dodges knew little of the new owner; Mrs. Dodge said she met him once and found him "charming." When she heard he had been run out of Venezuela at gunpoint she was somewhat taken aback. "Oh!" she exclaimed. "He isn't a bad man, is he? Like Perón? He seemed so nice...
...Waving pistols, 21 ragged, filthy men piled over the rail. Wakened by shouts, Hervey's wife Mildred rushed on deck, was held at gunpoint. The four-man crew was rounded up. Then the raiders, fugitives from the Galápagos penal colony on Isabela Island, demanded to be taken to the mainland...