Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patriot De la Chapelle knew when he pulled the trigger that he would pay with his life. Under a rigorous colonial third degree he would say only: "No accomplices were needed to do justice." Before the firing squad he did not flinch...
...impact switch has been developed by Walter Kidde & Co. which automatically releases several pounds of compressed carbon dioxide gas into the engine compartment of a plane if it crashes, thus helps to put out fire even if the pilot is incapacitated. An adjustable trigger device prevents release of the gas by twists in flying, bumps in landing...
Through the dark corridors to his office the Admiral strode briskly. He approached the anteroom where visitors waited for interviews. The door opened; a young man stepped into the hall. He aimed a revolver at the Admiral's face and pressed the trigger. The Admiral staggered, lunged forward, blood spurting from his mouth. A second shot. He fell, and lay still...
...British cargo ships. Probably scores of others were doomed by code messages on high-powered radio sets and interchange of information through Spanish ships. Subsequent developments were expected to give chapter & verse on a continental espionage system of Nazis, Fascists and Japanese operating in Buenos Aires with all the trigger men expelled from Brazil and Chile...
Publisher Alvin Wiehle of the Washington Herald-Telegram writes with brutal candor. When a recent District of Columbia practice blackout flopped, Publisher Wiehle combed the District's hair with a sneering editorial headline: "A blackout? Nuts! A whiteout!" During the recent scrap drive he pressed his editorial trigger again: "The people must conserve, conserve, conserve, but the Government is free to waste what it pleases. Attached to the wall of the public rest station at Dupont Circle are two iron trellises ... at least 40 lb. of good scrap. Why isn't something done?" He also runs pointed society...