Word: mausers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the militiamen in Orwell's outfit were mere children, all were badly trained, few knew how to fire a rifle. Orwell, who had once been a policeman in Burma, was appalled when he was handed his weapon, an 1896 German Mauser with a corroded barrel. Assigned to a section on the Aragon front, his ragged company of 100 went into the trenches with twelve overcoats among them. Before long, Orwell had learned the basic fact of infantry life: boredom. Wrote he: "A life as uneventful as a city clerk's and almost as regular. Sentry...
More, Please. Instead of boarding their prize in Treasure Island style, the pirates ordered the Wing Sang's skipper aboard their ship. He was greeted by a raffish crew of about 70 young Chinese in faded khaki and peaked military caps, and with Colt revolvers, Mauser automatics and bandoleers. Their leader, a slim, handsome man whose badge of office appeared to be a pair of brown leather gloves, made a short speech. Money, said he. Stanton was ordered to send his lifeboat back to the Wing Sang, to pick up $10.000 in ransom, and a passenger...
...National Guards thrust at him with their spears. Fingers scooped out his eyeballs. One of his arms was torn off. Later, after Liaquat had died in hospital (see NEWS IN PICTURES), police identified the dead assassin as Said Akbar, 29, an Afghan. The weapon he had used was a Mauser-type pistol, probably made by native craftsmen of the frontier, where gunmaking is a common household industry...
Boys of 14. The rising sun showed villagers who their attackers were: mostly country boys, some as young as 14, every one with a good Mauser rifle (a few had automatic rifles), a revolver, a machete, a knife. Commanding the bandits from San Pedro's central plaza was a lightly built man of about 25, clad in a new ruana (wool poncho). This was the storied bandit chief, Tulio Bautista...
...Rochester, N.Y., federal Food & Drug agents seized 108 quarts of blackstrap molasses along with 25 copies of Gayelord Mauser's popular diet book, Look Younger, Live Longer, in which the fashionable dietician touts his perfect health menus of wheat germ, yogurt, brewer's yeast and blackstrap molasses. The food men, taking a dyspeptic view of the perfect-health approach, charged that Hauser was violating the pure food laws, particularly with his claim that blackstrap would prevent menopausal difficulties, constipation, heart trouble, neuritis, also induce sleep and help grow hair...