Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eyes, though colorblind, are somehow uniquely sensitive to the kind of synthetic dyes used in camouflage fabrics. "When I see that kind of dye," he explained, "it shines like new money." Peering through binoculars, he soon spotted, clear as neon, the important details of a neatly concealed Jordanian gun emplacement a mile away. Using Jones as a spotter, the Israelis quickly knocked out the guns and began the march that a day and a half later ended in the capture of Jerusalem's Old City...
...Pilgrim Dry Cleaning and Laundry Co., whose 102 city branches were subjected to 20 stickups in 1966 and 33 so far this year. "I can't find people to work in my stores," he complains, "because they're scared someone's going to stick a gun in their bellies." Desperate, Robertson last month contracted with the Clyde Wilson detective agency to supply a posse of private guards toting twelve-gauge shotguns loaded with No. 1 buckshot. Two other dry cleaning-laundry chains bought into the arrangement, and six additional businesses with retail branches requested the same protection...
...uniform. The winding highway from the rugged wooded hills of Jerusalem to Tel Aviv on the coast was crowded with reservists hitchhiking to join their units. In the cities, girls in khaki miniskirts and pertly cocked overseas caps were on round-the-clock duty at sandbagged gun positions. Middle-aged men volunteered for temporary police duty, and middle-aged housewives enlisted for service as air-raid wardens. Schoolchildren delivered the mail, and university students paid their own way to remote kibbutzim (collective farms) to replace teachers called to arms. In Jerusalem, two wealthy merchant brothers responded to the emergency...
...only head of state among the guests, De Gaulle rated the most elaborate welcome at the airport, including a 21-gun salute, a bigger limousine, a larger motorcycle escort. Television cameras zeroed in on him, and Roman crowds shouted, "Viva De Gaulle!" As the guests and their Italian hosts walked from a ceremony in the Palazzo dei Conservatori through Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio, the other European leaders and Eurocrats trailed behind le grand Charles like captive barbarians in one of Caesar's triumphal parades...
...spoor of a sex killer, Janssen sees a suspect draw a pistol-and promptly guns him down. The victim turns out to be a widely respected M.D. When the doctor's pistol cannot be found, Berkeley-style pickets cry police brutality, and a grand jury indicts Janssen on a manslaughter charge. Eventually even California's finest turn their backs on one of their own. With less than ten days before trial time, he goes on a solo search for the missing gun and the story behind it. Running down false leads and blind alleys, Janssen caroms...