Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soft as a lion-pad I heard the gun-carriages turn, saw them vomit and drool; the firmament sagged and all the stars turned black. Black ocean bleeding and the brooding stars breeding chunks of fresh-swelled flesh while overhead the birds wheeled and out of the hallucinated sky fell the balance with mortar and pestle and the bandaged eyes of justice. All that is here related moves with imaginary feet along the parallels of dead orbs; all that is seen with the empty sockets bursts like flowering grass. Out of the nothingness arises the sign of infinity; beneath...
...Outfielder Frank Robinson of the Cincinnati Reds, the 1961 season began with a misfire; last week it ended with a bang. In February, Robinson nearly wrecked his baseball career when he pulled a gun during a fracas in a Cincinnati restaurant. Faced with up to three years in prison, Robinson pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed weapon, got off with a reprimand and a $250 fine. He arrived at spring training to confront fuming Manager Fred Hutchinson. Said Hutchinson: "That was a stupid thing to do." "It was," agreed Robby. "But sometimes a man learns from his stupidities...
Beria was invited forthwith to a special evening conference. To explain the presence of Moskalenko's men, he was told the meeting was to review defense problems. True to his word, Moskalenko had managed to smuggle a submachine gun into the building. He waited in the next room as the others started grilling Beria. They charged that he had been a secret agent for the British army during its occupation of Azerbaijan in 1918. Cried Khrushchev: "You are not a true Communist and never even joined a party organization." Beria, who was presumably above being frisked...
...Vladimir Semichastny, 37, who has been the leader of the Young Communist League, got his first taste of glory in 1958 when he declared that to compare Boris Pasternak to a pig "is unfair to the pigs." It is not known how well he handles a machine gun...
...into a small, strong-walled combustion chamber, where it is "ignited" by enzymes from glands lining the chamber. The peroxide quickly decomposes, giving off oxygen gas at considerable pressure-and shooting out of the cannon a loud, offensive discharge that makes the bombardier the insect kingdom's biggest gun...