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Word: gunsmiths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carry a passbook at all times) as "unjust humiliation." In the meantime, however, South Africans have taken out more than 200,000 new firearms licenses in the past year, bringing the total to nearly 1.2 million for the 4.3 million whites. "If I had them," boasts a Johannesburg gunsmith, "I could sell 1,000 pistols today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: POISED BETWEEN PEACE AND WAR | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...house special" is soda pop, and the custom-built cars that haul the marauding hoods around are driven by pedal power. Lots of people get rubbed out in the gangland power struggle, but nobody dies. The splurge tommy guns, designed with the help of a gunsmith, shoot a substance that looks like deliquescent marshmallow. If anyone is hit by a fusillade of splurge-or, alternatively, with a custard pie in the kisser-their passing is denoted simply and rather sweetly by a frame freeze of their plastered visage. Ultimately, though, pies and even splurge become harmless in a raucous grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Little Caesars in Never-Never Land | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...Gunsmith Gilbert Forbes, proprietor of The Sign of the Sportsman at 18 Broad Way, admitted receiving Tryon's money through Matthews and sending one shipment of 20 guns to the British. He claimed, however, that nearly half the guns had been defective and that the real purpose of the money had been to recruit Continental soldiers to the British cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIES: For Two Shillings | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

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