Word: trigger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soft white belly against the ground, upturning stricken, opalescent eyes. Farmer De Mouche chuckled. He laid his long shotgun upon the ground and bent to secure his game. But suddenly there was a scuffle behind him; another rabbit leaped out of the bush, sprang upon the shotgun's trigger. "BANG!" Farmer De Mouche received both barrels in his back. Bloody, mangled, dripping, he crawled home. The snared rabbit remained in the snare...
...gentle squeeze of the trigger and the great Fascist would topple headforemost from the balcony. Perhaps the House of Savoy would fall with him. Amid the antiFascist revolution which would spring up, anything might happen. Even as these thoughts coursed through the mind of onetime Socialist Deputy Tito Zaniboni, something happened with a vengeance. Fascist police burst in his door, collared him, took his rifle away, trundled him off to jail...
...Obbia and Mijertins have been allowed to retain their de facto autonomy, but now Italian troops have "resumed" actual control of this territory. Fascist-censored cables report that, the natives "welcomed the Italians with benevolence and sympathy," and surrendered 2,000 rifles and much ammunition "without pulling a single trigger...
...sergeant Frederick George Lee of the Middlesex Hospital, London, is not what you would call a sensitive man. Kind and sympathetic, yes; but army life and hanging around a hospital are scarcely calculated to give one a hair-trigger psyche. And yet, Frederick George Lee has doctors puzzled. They admitted it last week...
General Jackson challenged Dickinson, who was a crack shot, because he had insulted Mrs. Jackson. They fought with pistols at eight yards. Dickinson fired first and wounded Jackson near the heart. Jackson took deliberate aim and pulled the trigger. Then it was not Dickinson's, but Jackson's, pistol that stopped at , half cock. Jackson, sorely wounded, cocked it again and shot Dickinson, mortally wounding...