Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much money as the average white man: about $3000 per year. These are facts. But most white people do not seem to see them in connection with their own lives. Militant Negro leaders are beginning to feel that perhaps the only way of making the connection is at gun point, by using violence in self-defense: by demonstrating that if things don't get better soon, the Negro community may well erupt...
...that we didn't intend to be lynched. The other policeman, who had run around to the side of the car, started to draw his revolver out of the hostler. He was hoping to shoot me in the back. They didn't know we Negroes had more than one gun. [A boy who was 17 years old] put a .45 in the policeman's face and told him that if he pulled out his pistol he would kill him. The policeman started putting his gun back into his hostler and backing away from the car, and he fell into...
Without warning the Reds opened up on the two unarmed families in a withering blast of carbine and submachine-gun fire. Three-year-old Thomas Makil fell with a bullet in his leg, and slugs ripped through his four-month-old sister Janie's body into her father, killing them both. Elwood Jacobsen jerked backward and fell dead into the road. "I started hollering 'Elwood, Elwood,' " said Mrs. Jacobsen, "but I got no answer." In a flash, the Reds disappeared into the jungle; moments later, a truckload of government troops lumbered into sight down the road...
...over for Sicily, si. But for Naples it was far from over. On Sept. 12, the Panzers rumbled into town as the Italian garrison stumbled off in all directions. Then flying squads of German soldiers burst into the Vomero, the city's principal slum, and gun-butted the male population into labor battalions. In a fury the Neapolitan canaglia, known for a thousand years as the scum of the earth, rose in heroic rebellion against allies they had always loathed. Out of manholes, cellars, caves and sewers crammed with smuggled guns and ammo they came storming, and in four...
...German tank, hit by a shell, stops stunned, reels backward, writhes like a colossal metal insect in torment, the turret turning from side to side like a huge head and the tip of the long slender deadly gun glaring balefully in all directions like a big evil eye on a stilt...