Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slingshot. It shoots BB-sized ball-bearing pellets, carefully machined so that they will fly straight. The propellant is a thick rubber band inside the barrel. The gun is cocked by stretching the band taut with a metal piece containing the pellet, which slides inside the barrel. The trigger releases the slide which snaps out the pellet...
Just Turned Around. In all, nine defendants named Roosevelt Carlos Hurd as the trigger man. Tough, bespectacled little Mr. Hurd denied that he had shot Willie Earle. Said his account of the lynching: "Somebody fired a gun two or three times. I don't know who fired the gun. I did not have a gun. . . . When I seen they were going to kill the Negro, I just turned around because I did not want to see it happen...
...seven, Willie Mosconi was wan and trigger-tempered. In South Philadelphia he was famed as a deadly accurate pool shooter. Many an afternoon he shuffled into his father's barber shop and heard his Pa say: "Willie, there's a man in the back room who thinks he's better than you." Willie would grab a cue and go to work-with Pa betting as high as $100 on his boy. Business was brisk, and Willie got better with...
What do they do on a rainy day in Britain? Last week, the cables of the Associated Press were humming with the news. They play hink pink. How? Well, one Briton says to another, "Hink pink, convict?" If the other is quick on the trigger, he answers smartly: "Bad lad!" "Hink pink, sculpture," might draw the reply: "Bust trust." For advanced players the game can run into two syllables. Samples: "Hinky pinky, Palestine." Answer: "Skittish British." Possible, but inadvisable except for postgraduates, is the three-syllable challenge: "Hinkitty pinkitty, no more Molotov." The answer would, of course, be: "Bevinly Heavenly...
...step toward world peace, the Legion to the contrary, as it has never prevented war in Europe's conscription-ridden countries. Though it may give the illusion of bringing national security closer, UMT can do little but make the U. S. and the rest of the world trigger-happy. In the short-run, the ten million veterans preclude any necessity for what is in reality a peace-time draft...