Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major, Panama-style confrontation over Guantanamo. Immediately after the Jan. 9 Canal Zone riots, Castro's radio started appealing to Cuban workers on the base to return to the "motherland." A few weeks ago, Havana's propagandists railed that "drunken U.S. Marines indiscriminately fired their machine guns at Cuban workers." Castro militiamen have resumed their rock-throwing at U.S. sentries, recently fired a burst of machine-gun fire over the heads of a Marine squad inside the fence...
...N.Y.A.C. field was so-so at best. Nobody but O'Hara had ever run under 4 min. indoors, and North Carolina's Jim Beatty, the reigning record holder (at 3 min. 58.6 sec.), showed up only to wave at the crowd and fire the starter's gun...
...lead. Then he flung himself across the finish line and staggered wearily down the track while officials huddled to compare their watches. Cheers almost drowned out the announcement of his time: 3 min. 56.6 sec.-a fantastic 2 sec. faster than Beatty's old world record. "You sonova-gun!" cried Beatty. "Tokyo, watch out for the U.S.A...
...thirds of the movie one follows Billy's elaborate imbroglios and fanciful disentanglements in a spirit of high hilarity. (Whenever he finds himself pinched in a particularly sticky wicket he sees himself suddenly in a trooper's uniform, spattering his tormentors with submachine-gun bullets.) But finally, after his pipedream of a big-city job collapses, after the boss catches him embezzling, when Liz leaves for London without him and he faces the death of his grandmother and fury of his father we realize that the pathetic little mirage of Ambrosia is Billy's permanent residence...
...Delay" Beckwith himself, who punctuated his testimony with soft "suhs." "Did you kill Medgar Evers?" asked Lott. "No, suh." Was Beckwith in Jackson the night of the murder? "No, suh." At one point, Lott handed Beckwith the Enfield to examine. Beckwith leaned forward in the witness chair, aimed the gun over the jury's heads and pulled the trigger. Said he: "I couldn't say this is my scope or my gun." Anyway, Beckwith added pleasantly, his Enfield with a telescopic sight had been stolen from his car two days before Evers was murdered...