Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officer of the John Birch Society. In recent issues of American Opinion, the Birch magazine, he published, under the title "Marxmanship in Dallas," the most elaborate version yet of the diehard "plot" theory of the Kennedy assassination. The Communists executed the President, says Oliver, intending to blame ultrarightists and trigger "a domestic takeover." Not that Oliver misses Kennedy: as long as there are Americans, he writes, Kennedy's "memory will be cherished with distaste...
...departed. According to police measurements, Ruby walked 339 ft. 6 in. down the street to the underground garage ramp of police headquarters, and at precisely 11:21 a.m. he stepped out of a crowd of newsmen, shoved a snub-nosed .38-cal. revolver at Oswald and pulled the trigger...
...that they would not gain the promotions they had been promised. Locked and loaded with resentment, the Rifles needed only a touch to unload through the muzzle. Four days later, on the tiny island of Zanzibar, 221 miles off the East African coast, a finger began moving toward the trigger...
...Trigger. Prices naturally rise fastest in the most rapidly growing and most crowded areas: California, Florida, Arizona and metropolitan New York. In the East, prices get a boost from many suburban communities that resort to "snob zoning" to keep out the creeping city. Reasoning that an influx of families in matchbox homes would overload their schools with children, these communities have zoned all lots for one, two and three acres. "They're attempting birth control by zoning," says Royce...
...would continue might be forced to sell off to pay their debts. For another, banks and savings and loan associations that are lending money on the inflated values might not be able to retrieve the full amount of their mortgages, would find themselves in serious trouble. All this could trigger a price collapse that would burst the land-boom bubble, but few expect this to happen soon-if at all. Despite the high prices, strong and rising demand still supports the cost of land...