Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best estimates indicate that China has 35 field armies, each numbering four divisions, or 40,000 men. The Chinese infantryman is armed with a stamped burp gun of a simple type that has a fast rate of fire but an exceedingly bad reputation for accuracy. He is most often a conscript and is carefully chosen...
...once in the leg. The court usher charges boldly, then sprawls dead with three methodically aimed bullets in him. The judge intervenes, only to slump in his robes, critically wounded by four slugs. Finally a policeman slips behind the general, cuts him down with a burst from his submachine gun. Dying on the courtroom floor, General Concaro gasps: "I shot as a protest against bureaucracy. I am only sorry I fell in such a dishonorable way-shot in the back...
...King and His Court consists of a biographical directory of leading Gaullists, annotated with symbols a la Guide Michelin. A camel, for example, signifies a Gaullist who stuck by the General during the desert years from 1953 to 1958, when he completely withdrew from politics. A machine gun insignia marks those who fought in the Resistance. Any kind of affiliation with De Gaulle, past or present, qualifies a man for the Directory. Thus Raymond Aron, now an opponent of De Gaulle, is listed along with heir-apparent Michele Debre and obscure hatchetmen like Jean-Baptiste Biaggi. "Minister of the word...
...Holt ordered an investigation, and inevitably it would leave unsolved the generations-old campus question of how horseplay escalates into homicide, high spirits degenerate into low tragedy. How, for instance, did the dead freshman, an unobtrusive nephew of a U.T. English instructor, and his friends come under the gun? Most riot-weary authorities cite mob psychology as a prime factor. "When people feel they're lost in a crowd," notes San Francisco State College Dean Ferd Reddell, "they always grow braver. That's why one way to handle them during a mob scene is to call them...
...great bells of St. Paul's pealed out as the coffin was returned to the gun carriage. Cannon again reverberated. Sixty salutes had already been fired; now came 30 more-one for every year of Churchill's life. Sixty Highland bagpipers from different Scottish regiments piped the coffin down to the wharf at the foot of Tower Hill where Beefeaters in full uniform stood guard. Against the backdrop of Tower Bridge the vast Pool of London lay as still as an inland lake. Across the river great cranes bowed low in touching, mechanical precision. To the piping...