Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publishing plant of Berlin's world-famed Socialist daily Vorwdrts ( Forward!"). Shooting from behind their presses, Socialist pressmen repulsed invading Fascists who, however, severely-wounded two pressmen. Later a sniper concealed in the Vorwarts building pointed a shotgun at Fascists marching past in the street, squeezed the trigger, badly wounded one Fascist...
Lawyer Darrow's whole case was based on the assumption that Lieut. Massie, in a fit of insanity induced by the confession of his wife's ravisher, actually did pull the trigger that resulted in Kahahawai's death. If the young husband who held the gun and did not recall firing it could be cleared by the jury, the case against the other three defendants in no way linked to the shooting would also fall flat...
...Massachusetts went to Schenectady, impersonated an embattled farmer, fired a "shot heard round the world." In a broadcasting studio radio technicians wielded powder horn, ramrod and wadding, loaded a Revolutionary Brown Bess flintlock. At 7:30 a. m., hour when the Concord skirmish began, Governor Ely nervously pulled the trigger. It clicked inef⅛fectively-an official fired a revolver. In ⅛ of a second the sound was flashed to Kootwijk, Holland, relayed to Bandung, Java, thence to Sydney, Australia and back to Schenectady...
Nervousness and hurry, factors that every killer must cope with, are responsible for absurd mistakes. Dr. Magrath told of a man who in attempting to make the shot-gun murder of his wife appear a suicide, fastened a string to the trigger guard of the weapon instead of to the trigger itself...
...noticed anything unusual, noticed that when the Match King came home with a package in his hand he did not smile or reply as he always had to the doorman's greeting. Going upstairs, Titan Kreuger wrote three letters in longhand to relatives, loosened his clothes, pulled the trigger...