Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly a police car sped up to the crowd and jerked to a halt. A plump, middle-aged sergeant hopped out with his gun drawn and ran toward the crowd. Then another car drove up. Two officers got out and started running in the same direction. Then came two motorcycles, sirens wailing, two more cars, another motorcycle. Ten or fifteen policemen were running down the alley that the policemen disappeared into...
Salute Fired. Champagne and whisky flowed at Promontory, and the nation joined in the celebration. Fire bells pealed in San Francisco, a 100-gun salute was fired in New York, and in Philadelphia the Liberty Bell rang loudly. Today the great age of steel and steam is long past. The Promontory line, which followed the edge of the Great Salt Lake, was replaced in 1903 by a causeway that cut directly across it. The historic trackage was hauled off and melted down to help meet World War II metal shortages. Even the causeway line is now used by only...
...shade of girders on each of the Nile bridges, and guard the Cairo airport, the railroad terminal and key road junctions on the sprawling city's edges. Sonic booms occasionally rattle the windows of Cairenes as MIG fighters scramble daily on simulated interception missions. Through the clear air, as gun crews perfect their skills in the nearby desert, come the crump of artillery and the rhythmic tat too of antiaircraft fire...
...past 36 days and every day last week, heavy artillery dueled across the Suez Canal. Israelis last week directed their fire for the first time at now-evacuated Port Said. The Egyptians in turn killed seven Israeli soldiers and two civilian bulldozer drivers. On Israel's eastern front, the guns of Suez are faithfully echoed in daily artillery, tank, mortar, machine-gun and rifle fire across the Jordan River...
...never discovered???? please, i must know--it is a matter of life and death. . . . "that's right," he said (the whole in the wall in the wheel of the world). . . . "it's a matter of your life, heh, heh." . . . and then he zapped him with a tompson submachine gun brrrraaapppppp. but the pellets dissolved and scattered into a 1000 tiny motes that resembled pieces of the 160 tons of sunlight that fall to the ground every day. "i'm a sunflower" the perturbed tommygunner cried. "quack, quack!" the captain replied; "after all," he added, "i was only following...