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Word: guns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, alerted that RAM was about to start the terror, the cops moved. Along with the prisoners, they seized more than 30 weapons, including a machine gun and ten rifles. They also found portraits of Chairman Mao, tracts on Communist revolutionary strategy and Red Chinese flags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Busting RAM | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

...several generations of American boys, the name Daisy evokes nostalgic memories of summer afternoons spent plinking tin cans with a BB gun. Daisy is still the big name in BB guns, but the company is now preparing to market a jet-age air rifle that is definitely not for small boys. Almost as powerful as the standard .22-caliber rifle, the weapon is nearly recoilless, virtually jamproof, and fires bullets without cartridges, primer charge or powder. Daisy is confident that it will be the forerunner of a new generation of weapons for both civilian and military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weapons: Forerunner Rifle | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

...distance of 25 ft. Negroes who were standing near by said it was a much closer shot; indisputably, the victim was shot in the back. With that, the mobs began gathering. Arsonists set fires in stores, a lumberyard, half a dozen vacant houses. After rioters broke into a gun store on Cass Street, firemen found slugs snapping around them; a white couple, attracted by the flames, were dragged out of their car and beaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Mind Over Mayhem | 6/23/1967 | See Source »

...repel the enemy. Cairo police reported that in the few hours from the time that Nasser "resigned" and then changed his mind, a record number of suicides took place. When he heard of the resignation, a soldier guarding a Cairo bridge howled like a wounded animal, fired his machine gun into the Nile until it was empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Running From Defeat | 6/23/1967 | See Source »

...final, dreamlike dinner by candlelight. Then she dies, knowing that the race will die with her and with the girls she has overseen since their childhood. Her charges pack up to resume their wandering, and try to take the Gramophone with them. When the old man protests, they gun him down like an animal and resume their aimless journey. Director Jan Schmidt has given Ozone the spare style of a Kafka fable, abetted by Poničanová's tragic portrait of a woman who seems to be lifted directly from a Kollwitz engraving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Czech New Wave | 6/23/1967 | See Source »

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