Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happened because big-boned, tall and sportsmanly French Foreign Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin is one of the few Latins who knows England and the English thoroughly. More often than any other French statesman he slips across the Channel to shoot grouse in Scotland or ride to hounds with English country squires. M. Flandin knows Mr. Baldwin. He is familiar with the reluctance of the Prime Minister to use the telephone, his refusal to read newspapers on Sunday and his instinctive habit of not feeling strictly bound by promises which British statesmen may make outside the United Kingdom (TIME...
...that, argues the apologists of Weakness, would have made him madder and more maniacal than ever. Yes, but how dangerous is a madman if you have a gun to shoot him with when he gets funny? As for relative strength, look what Great Britain did to India with a few thousand soldiers, and who has heard of the Boers in all these years, though their hate at first after defeat must have been as great even as that of a Frenchman for a German...
...truly, after the next war, let the winner take over the beaten country and keep it down. If popular opinion gets strong, and riots start, shoot down a couple of thousand of the natives. If that makes the riots even fiercer, shoot down thousands more. Sooner or later they'll get used to subservience, and then wars with that particular country, whether it be Great Britain, France, Italy, or Germany again, will be no more. SATAN
...late years General Hagood has advocated a number of unorthodox military ideas. By simplification of army training he claimed that in wartime raw recruits, "taught to shoot instead of to salute," could be made into efficient fighting men in three weeks or less. By reducing paper work and simplifying the War Department, he asserted, the U. S. could have a much more efficient army for much less money. In case of war he advocated sending only the National Guard to the front, ordering all regulars to the rear to train recruits-the system practiced by the Confederate Army and advocated...
...Shoot me first!" screamed Viscountess Saito darting forward and clapping her hand over the muzzle of the nearest machine gun. Instantly both trigger fingers clenched and the double roar of ZUG-ZUG-ZUG began. Bloody was the brave Viscountess' hand as her lord, the Admiral and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal crumpled and died under the murderous fusillade...