Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Triggerman. And three's a crowd. The ingredients for an intraparty explosion were already there, but it was McCarthy who pulled the trigger with his New Hampshire showing. Before the debris had settled, Kennedy moved to shoulder him aside. Scarcely a month after he had unequivocally denied speculation that he would challenge the President, the Senator announced: "I am reassessing my position." Before he reached a final decision, he made an extraordinary offer to the President (see box, p. 18), to which Johnson, not surprisingly, said no. Kennedy soon afterward decided...
...McNamara insisted at first that the equipment "consisted in essence" of normal radio receivers that gave the ship "added capacity" to detect indications of possible attack. In testimony released at week's end, however, he admitted that, far from being routine, the electronic gear was designed to somehow "trigger" North Vietnamese radar so that the U.S. would know the frequencies of Northern radar installations. Then, in an amazing turnabout, the Navy disputed its chief, insisting that the equipment was indeed only standard gear...
Dwight Eisenhower's 1955 heart attack, the most highly publicized coronary occlusion in history, is usually cited as the trigger of this national impulse to perspire for the sake of health. Eisenhower's heart specialist, Paul Dudley White, seized his moment of national prominence to lecture the public repeatedly on its deplorable shape, suggesting that the tone of the body has much to do with the pace of the mind. "The better the legs," said White, still bicycling today at 81, "the clearer the brain." There is little doubt that some triggering was necessary. For the first time...
...time of the bombing. When Watkins refused, Lawyer Buckley pulled a knife. Watkins was dragged from the car and knocked around. One of the Klansmen stuck a pistol in his face. "There's one bullet in this gun," he said. "I'm gonna keep pulling the trigger until you say what we want you to or until I kill you." Said Buckley: "Let me get back in the car and run him over...
...advocates of the plan pointed out that demand should double in a decade. More important, they predicted that steel production could trigger a new era of industrial growth. So far, Taiwan's businessmen have concentrated on light manufacturing items such as electronic components and consumer goods; a steel plant could produce a heavy-machinery industry and give further impetus to the country's infant shipbuilding efforts...