Word: gunshot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Declared Dead. Adolf Hitler, 56, by his own hand (gunshot wound) on April 30, 1945; in Berlin; by the District Court at Berchtesgaden, West Germany...
...Hulen, 61, U.S. District Court jurist who presided at the recent trial of Matthew J. Connelly and T. Lamar Caudle, onetime Truman Administration officials convicted last month (TIME, June 25) of conspiring to fix a Government tax case, and who was scheduled to sentence them next week; of a gunshot wound in the head while on his backyard pistol range; in St. Louis...
...world to play with, Winston Churchill created the toy world of "Laurania" in which a "dictator" is overthrown by a liberal revolution; then, as happened often enough later, the liberals find that they have set sinister forces in motion. Before they are suppressed, Laurania is rent by explosions, duels, gunshot and high-flown mayhem, all set forth in an absurdly magnificent style...
Died. Prince Alfonso of Bourbon, 14, younger son of Spanish Pretender Don Juan and brother of Prince Juan Carlos, Generalissimo Franco's hand-picked candidate for the Spanish throne; of a gunshot wound while cleaning a pistol in the game room of the family residence in exile; in Estoril, Portugal...
Before it could adjourn, the Congress had to receive and act upon a report from the conference committee-and the committee was deadlocked. (Said New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives: "We didn't come within gunshot of each other.") That being the case, there was nothing to do but stay in Washington over the weekend and try again this week...