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Word: machineguns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discovery that some Midwest grade school students cannot spell. Another story speculated for Observer readers on what it would be like if Algerian-style plastiqueurs were loose in New York: "On any given Saturday night in Times Square a car would pull up to the curb and spray machinegun bullets into the crowds ... A bomb would be thrown into New York's Carnegie Hall . . . Taxi drivers, bus drivers and mailmen would be killed in every section of the city. Crowded Harlem tenements would be blown up on an average of one a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Enter the Observer | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

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