Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Where is the commander of the guard?" asked the scout, submachine gun at the ready. "There is no commander of the guard," said the newsman. "Where are the soldiers?" asked the scout. "There are no soldiers," came the answer. "Everybody cleared out." Anticipating attack, the palace staff threw open the doors...
...plan went sour. "We didn't have no gun," said R. E. Jackson, Clemmie's brother, "and even if we did, we wouldn't none of us known how to use it." Alarmed, Resnick glanced around to see if any neighbors were looking, then quickly got into the car. Driving aimlessly around, the five men finally decided that Sam Resnick should die by garroting...
...thump of dynamite blasting foxholes into the coral starts at dawn these days at Guantánamo Naval Base. All day newly arrived marines sweat and swear as they sandbag gun emplacements, communications lines and antitank positions...
Starting last November, Cuban bulldozers have cleared a network of military access roads, which slope down from the surrounding hills (where Castro observation posts and gun emplacements lurk) right up to Gitmo's 24-mile fence. The mined roads lead 26 miles westward to the home base of a Castro armored pool of 51-ton Stalin tanks and 155-mm., 40-m.p.h. motorized artillery...
...described as the gift of death to so many living creatures in his lifetime, loaded the weapon he held and then leaned forward as he placed the stock of his favorite shotgun on the floor of the foyer, and found a way to trip the cocked hammers of the gun...