Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When U.S. observers in a C-47 flew up to photograph the operation, a machine gun, either in the Ilyushin or on the ground, opened up, shot out one engine on the American C-47 and riddled the fuselage...
...eyes. It also deafens the ear involved. Another supposed cure has been the injection of alcohol into the nerves leading from the ear to the brain, but this sometimes causes facial paralysis. Now, in Edinburgh, the electrical engineering firm of Bruce Peebles & Co., Ltd. is perfecting an ultrasonic gun that doctors hope will cure crippling cases of Ménière's disease with less disastrous aftereffects...
Bald & Proud. Scarcely had the visitors unpacked when Kennedy ordered them out for one of his frequent rounds of golf- (no pictures, please, ordered Kennedy's aides). With security agents lurking with gun and radio in the rough, the group pounded away, but flatly refused to disclose their scores. Word got around that when Mr. Sam beheld Johnson's first drive, he said hell, he could do as well as that...
...carrier is the third vessel to bear the name. The original Constellation, a 36-gun frigate, the Navy's oldest ship, is now a museum piece at Fort McHenry, Baltimore. Her namesake, a sloop of war, was built in 1855-although some historians insist that this was the original ship rebuilt and restored. Another Constellation, scheduled to be a battle cruiser, was scrapped after her keel was laid, as a result of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. * On March 19, 1945, in the Inland Sea, the flag carrier Franklin was hit by two Japanese bombs, engulfed in flames...
...rebels' own proclamations demanding an end to oppression and poverty amounted to "approval of the program of progress in education, health and social welfare that we have been implementing all the time." His son Crown Prince Asfa Wassan had broadcast for the rebels "at the point of a gun," according to an official communique. To emphasize that he was back in charge, the Emperor ordejred the bullet-riddled corpse of a rebel chieftain hanged in a public square...