Word: trigger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Still more daring was a subsea voyage performed by Amir Amanullah in the British submarine L-22, off Southampton. When invited to fire a dummy torpedo, His Majesty pulled the trigger with apparent trepidation, but soon rallied and fired a second torpedo...
...word. Then he smacked the pig's nose with all his might. At this the pig squealed more loudly and sadly. James Ledbetter went into his grandfather's house, seized a large rifle, pushed the muzzle close to the pig's heart, pulled the trigger and despatched...
Father Projuarez crumpled down. A police sergeant, drawing his revolver, went over and pressed it against the prostrate man's temple. Pulling the trigger, he administered the official coupe...
...dining at the public for weeks to describe the Republican problem, had dwindled to the first couplet except as political poetry. The candidacy of Vice President Charles Gates Dawes may contain a trace of realism, but the G. O. Politicians distrust Mr. Dawes. He is so quick on the trigger, and he backed the McNary-Haugen bill.* As for Frank Orren Lowden, his candidacy has been buried alive by recent developments in Illinois...
...from the front, of a sudden changed his mind, or appeared to do so, and instead of producing the expected petition, whipped out a revolver and fired through the windshield at the aged president. Smiles on the faces of policemen faded instantly. Before the assailant could pull the trigger twice a dozen strong arms of the law had siezed him. Soldiers, alarmed by the shot, became rigid, threw a cordon around the would-be assassin to prevent his being torn asunder by the infuriated...