Word: sten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prison into the Nicosia general hospital for treatment, three gunmen opened fire in the crowded lobby. One of Hadjigeorghiu's two British sergeant escorts fell, mortally wounded. The other shot two of the assassins dead and bloodied the head of the third with a blow from his emptied Sten gun. A hospital attendant who had been handing out the week's paychecks to the help was also killed. Two others were wounded. In the uproar Hadjigeorghiu and the bleeding gunman bolted off. It was hide-and-seek again...
...terracing farmland a few yards from the Jordan border. The U.N.'s Lieut. Colonel Erik Helge Thalin, a Swede, and Major Miller Envit, a Dane, jeeped forward to check on the shooting. A Jordan villager, enraged over the recent death of a near relative, opened fire with a Sten gun and seriously wounded Colonel Thalin. Three days later Svend Rasmussen, a Danish radio technician, was killed by an anti-vehicle mine laid on a frontier path used only by U.N. observers...
...away, ostensibly to get reinforcements. Meanwhile, a detachment of guards in the rear car of the express lay low, hoping the bandits would overlook them. It was a vain hope. Concentrating their aim on the rear car, the bandits pinned down the guards with a barrage of Bren and Sten gunfire, turning aside only to kill any passengers from the train who tried to escape. Then, going systematically through the cars, they stripped the dead and wounded of all their clothes and possessions, rounded up those who could still walk, and forced them to shoulder the loot and carry...
...Boss of Britain's Underworld. Jack produced a rival series of articles for the Sunday Chronicle, describing in glowing terms his own rise to power. The Jack Spot memoirs hit their high point with the boast that he had mustered an army of 1,000 hoods armed with Sten guns, hand grenades, British service revolvers and German Lugers, to maintain his own rule. So long as the rivalry was literary, the Yard did not seem to mind. But then Billy Hill, bored with the artistic life, began to frequent his old haunts with the possible notion of taking over...
...streets of Evaton for three days. Some 2,000 terrified women of the district hastily gathered up their children and their household goods and fled to the police barracks, where they set up a refugee camp, while police reinforcements from a dozen nearby cities fought the rioters with Sten guns and fell back in confusion before the wildly swinging clubs of the mobs. Four more Africans were killed and a score hospitalized. By the third night Evaton was a ghost town peopled only by small knots of men waiting for one another with knives or clubs...