Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Turkish city. The agent arranged to buy 18 kg. of morphine base. The ex-mayor made the delivery-accompanied by 20 Turks armed to the teeth. When the agent and Turkish police got the drop on the crooks, they tried to shoot their way out. After a furious gun battle, six men, including the ex-mayor, were arrested. Said Giordano: "Very few cases in Turkey end up in other than gunfire...
...flowers: "Francia y México par la Paz del Mundo-Viva Francia." Then out of a warm, clear sky whistled the white-and-blue-trimmed Caravelle carrying Charles de Gaulle. Down the steps he lumbered, over to a red dais, and to the first crack of a 21-gun salute, France's towering (6 ft. 4 in.) President leaned low and bussed 5-ft. 9-in. President Adolfo López Mateos on both cheeks. The crowd roared its delight...
More Hits. Then came World War II, and Wiener went to work designing aiming, devices for antiaircraft guns. He demonstrated that gun sights are basically mathematical. Controlled by mechanisms based on far-out mathematical theorems, guns made more hits, radars tracked more targets. Wiener's work was invaluable, but he declared that he would never again touch military weapons. He stuck to his resolution despite bitter criticism...
...United Kingdom of Great Britain and'Northern Ireland, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, and His Royal Highness Prince Philip, 42, Duke of Edinburgh: their fourth child, third son (third in line to the succession); in Buckingham Palace; an event that sent a 41-gun salute echoing across London, spliced Royal Navy mainbraces the world over, brought forth one of Poet Laureate John Masefield's instant odes, bidding...
This is a pretty depressing state, and I've had a close look at some of its most depressing parts in the last couple of weeks. J--and myself were set afoot on highway 49 last week when a gun-waving state cop arrested everybody in our party with a Mississippi license and impounded our car. We later heard that he had some local yahoos out looking for us, but we walked the twenty miles from Yazoo City to Flora in the ditches along the roadside. Yazoo City is a bad problem; we managed to get a lady...