Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imagines that she is going to help him break away from his job as legal chore boy for a gang of hoodlums; instead, she helps frame him for murder. When he manages to escape from the guard who is carting him off to prison, the gang's trigger man catches up with him. This leads to the most gruesome of the movie's assortment of gruesome scenes: Scott and the kindhearted girl (Dorothy Malone) who has hidden him are parked on a lonely roadside while a gangster cheerfully digs a grave to dump them in. A gentler touch...
...long foreword to his handbook, which he publishes himself because "nobody else will print it," Sargent calls. Professor of Anthropology Clyde K. M. Kluckhonn a "trigger man to Provost Buck...
...Arias, reaching for his hip. "I was one of Villa's Golden Ones!" "And I am from Michoacán!" snarled Arias. Alva drew his .45 Colt automatic; Arias leveled his pearl-handled .38 at the general's middle. Without saying anything more, he squeezed the trigger three times. The general sank to the black-&-white marble tiles, fired once before he hit the floor. Once was enough: his slug ripped through the police chief's heart...
...justified if there were no other way to insure the peace. But it takes time for a crowd to develop into a riotous mob. Enough time for a modern police force to reinforce a moderate guard. In fact, an excess of police could do just as much to trigger trouble as to prevent...
...find out what causes gout, Dr. Harkavy noticed that it attacks its victims most frequently in the spring and fall. He thinks he has found one of the answers in pollen from grass and trees in the spring, from ragweed in the fall. Pollen, he says, can be the trigger that sets off a series of reactions that wind up as a pain in the big toe; it may be pollen by itself, or in combination with certain foods, plain or fancy, to which certain people are sensitive...