Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With his Palmolive pistol jammed into the back of a frightened female county employee, he barreled his way through the throng. "Get out of my way, please!" the woman cried. "He has a gun in my back...
...down in the melee was a 19year-old pregnant stripteaser, Karen Lynn Bennett, professionally known as "Little Lynn," who was on hand as the first defense witness. Shrieked Little Lynn, after one look at the soap-gun: "Oh, my God! He's after me!" He wasn't. But there followed a scuffle, and within minutes the fellow with the soap and one other escapee were recaptured. The other five drifted through the confused crowds. Some were caught later, but a few got away. Television and still cameras caught most of the action. And the trial of Jack Ruby...
...even less that he could do for himself, as he lay in an overheated room, apprehensive and overly aware of all that was going on around him. The hospital sounded like the lower decks of a battleship. The corridors were a babel of squawk boxes, counterpointed by the gun-mount rumble of food carts, the depth-charge banging of slammed doors. Though some of his nurses were ministering an gels, Hodgins laments the modern hospital's chronic shortage of hands. "In the old days," he says, "a patient put on his light to indicate he needed something...
...head in an attempt to hear what is being said on the eaves of doom. The precipice man is still wobbling there when Arthur's peripheral vision picks up George C. Scott, who is walking with set jaw, lips in motion, toward a mad parolee with a gun. What are the lips saying...
Arthur Telefiend attacks his wife, tearing out seven pin curlers before he finally locates the earphones and hears Scott say: "I'm your friend, Marty. You must believe me, I'm your friend. Just hand me the gun, Marty." But Marty isn't about to hand over the gun right away, and meanwhile the man on the ledge has fallen but is now hanging on with one hand. Arthur grabs the earphones back from his son. He hears shallow breathing and a low groan. He is missing something. A fight has broken out in the hockey game...