Word: popgunned
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...more unwilling warrior could have been found for Operation Popgun than Captain Trimmer, onetime ladies' hairdresser on the Aquitania. But the submarine lost its way, and the trembling Trimmer found himself leading the first Britons since Dunkirk back onto the French coast. Somehow Trimmer's sergeant blew up a rail line, while the press officer quoted tipsy encouragement to the captain. "For God's sake, come on," squeaked Trimmer from the small boat, as the sappers returned. "Be of good comfort, Master Trimmer, and play the man," urged the press officer. "We shall this day light such...
...rattle, a popgun and five-penny squirt...
...Their popgun was stolen...
...Atomic Popgun. Last week, as the Witnesses met in New York City, 20 of their members coming from abroad had been detained at Ellis Island on suspicion of "extreme pacifism." But to the faith-filled, world-defying women and men who "come in the truth" for Jehovah, the internments, the slammed doors, the sneers, and the outright persecution seem to bring a surer sense of belonging to God's Kingdom than any amount of public honor and religious respectability...
...trumpet as the advance guards of the mighty heavenly hosts led by the Great Warrior, Jesus Christ. These legions of warring angels follow us with mighty weapons of warfare that will make the atomic bomb, the hydrogen bomb, and all other inventions of warfare by men look like the popgun of a child in comparison...