Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Privy Counsellor, Companion of Honour, Queen's Counsel, and three months ago he became the first non-Englishman to be appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, an order that entitles him to fly a blue, yellow and red flag depicting Dover Castle and rates him a 19-gun salute in the five ports for which the order was named...
...brick truck at the age of twelve. A stint in the World War I Navy and a few months as a fireman convinced him that he was not cut out for such tame endeavors. The pug-faced Irishman joined the cops in 1923. "Gimme a gangster, give him a gun, and leave the rest to me," he used to say. Well aware that the hoods of his day had such powerful political connections that it was difficult to convict them of serious crimes, Johnny believed in dealing out punishment on the spot. And only rarely did his targets...
...always in the middle of the big cops-and-robbers shootouts. When Francis ("Two-Gun") Crowley was holed up, Broderick gave him two hours to surrender, then marched up to the building and found himself facing Crowley's pistol. He flattened the gunman with a punch before Crowley could find the courage to shoot...
...Jamaica last summer, sport fishermen blasted away at a long liner's glass floats with rifles. In Acapulco, only the timely arrival of a Mexican coast-guard boat averted a shooting match between charter-boat vigilantes and a Japanese long liner armed with a machine gun. And last July, when a flotilla of Norwegian long liners steamed into Maryland's Jack Spot, a pair of charter-boat skippers roared out and carved up the long lines with their boats' propellers...
...ruins, pounded into rubble by Allied bombers, and Alfried Krupp himself was sentenced to twelve years in prison for employing slave labor in his factories. Krupp was released in 1951, after serving only half his sentence; at that time he pledged that he would never again make another gun or another bullet...