Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...February, industrial prices rose to a new 1958 high every day in the week. The London Financial Times's index stood at 205.4, only 7.9 points below the alltime high of July 1955. Transactions in a single day totaled 16,599,000 shares, highest in 17 months. The trigger was Britain's resoundingly successful effort since 1957 to protect the pound by raising interest rates, which has increased gold and dollar reserves by about $1 billion. Though British industrial production is falling and unemployment is rising, the big institutions have confidently moved back into the market...
Unfortunately, there are a few squares loitering in the tall grass. Actor Granger strides up answering to the name of Harry Black, a famed hunter hired by the government to dispatch the tiger. He quickly corners the beast and is squeezing his finger on the trigger when a Land Rover roars by and scares it away. Drat! To make matters worse, behind the wheel of the Rover is an old war buddy (Anthony Steel), whom Harry Black treats with untropical coolness. After a couple of flashbacks, the viewer learns why: not only did Steel's cowardice...
Using an isolated dog's heart, connected to the donor dog's circulatory system, Bromberger and Caldini found that magnesium ions, released from the rest of the body during hypothermia, seemed to concentrate in the cold heart. They were then able to show that this magnesium could trigger fibrillation; a small magne sium increase caused fibrillation even at normal temperature...
...Minister Jacques Soustelle, who is bitterly hated by the rebels as the chief political mentor of the Algerian colons, barely escaped assassination when an Algerian thrust a revolver through the rear window of his Citroën as it stopped for a red light in the heart of Paris. Trigger-happy police began shooting down dark-skinned Italians and Portuguese in the belief that they were Algerian...
...curious discovery is that more energy may be released when a sphere is collapsed under water than when it is blown outward against pressure. To measure this, Navy scientists once sent a 6-in.-diameter hollow ball 3,500 ft. to the bottom. Collapsed by a spring trigger when it hit, it exploded with as much force as a "sizable" charge...