Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which forced the choppers to use more fuel per mile than at their Seventh Army base in Stuttgart, West Germany. Several choppers were shot at by Congolese soldiers who mistook them for Belgian craft. Pilot Captain James Sanders of Nashville, Tenn. had his helicopter holed eight times by machine-gun bullets while on a search mission near Inkisi. But, says Captain Sanders philosophically, "the Congolese are right friendly when they find out you're not Belgian. They come up and shake your hand. I was impressed...
...would camp in his front yard until he changed his mind. Chehab's wife called him aside, and 15 minutes later the President came back to say he would stay in after all. Joyously bodyguards fired their pistols into the air. One Deputy whipped out a small submachine gun from under his flowing sports shirt and blasted away. Every light in the district, including the Chehab villa, blinked out - somebody had hit the power line. In a candlelight celebration, the Deputies ceremoniously burned the President's resignation in a silver...
...have built an entire theory of American male behavior (putting women on pedestals, etc.) on the notion that females were scarce and cherished in the old West. The theory is open to question. This book, for one, suggests that, in the West as elsewhere, behind the man behind the gun stood a little woman...
Allie knew only by hearsay of the men-folks' downtown gambling and gun toting, because the men always kept their women out of sight; to her, the legendary Tombstone years were primarily a time of waiting and worrying about whether Virgil would come home at night alive. Lodged at the edge of the Mexican quarter with the other Earp women-Bessie, wife of Jim Earp, a half brother; Wyatt's wife Mattie; and "Big Nose" Kate Elder, the Kansas prostitute who married an Earp sidekick, "Doc" Holliday-Allie sewed, cooked, gossiped and quarreled. Time and again, Allie...
Framingham, Mass., Carousel Theater: Ginger Rogers in Annie Get Your Gun...