Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours on Tuesday afternoon-and they wanted $240,000. Frank got his friend Al Hart, president of Beverly Hills' City National Bank, to get the money together. Hart had it photographed for serial numbers. Then the FBI saw to it that the "drop" was made without alarming any trigger fingers, leaving the money between two school buses parked overnight near a service station. About 12:30 Wednesday morning the kidnapers picked up their prize of $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 bills-12,400 notes in all, wrapped in an 18-in.-square package-and about two hours later...
...winter vacation has become so commonplace that the sting of the first sleet is likely to trigger automatic thoughts of palm trees and bathing suits -even for those who will have to fly-now-pay-later...
...trigger for the rebellion was reaction to the assassination of President Kennedy. In Hoffa's absence, Gibbons closed down the Teamsters' $5,000,000 Washington headquarters, issued a statement of regret. When Hoffa found out about it, he flew into a tantrum. "I'm no hypocrite," he yelled. "Who told you to do this?" Hoffa later went on to gloat that his archenemy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, would be "just a lawyer...
...exploded long ago. Somehow they manage to survive on less oxygen rather than more. But how? Dr. Scholander soon found out that on submergence in a bathtub the seal's heartbeat is slowed to about one-tenth of its normal rate. This happens so fast that the trigger for the circulatory defense mechanism seems to be psychological rather than physical. Scholander's experiments proved this. A loud, sharp noise produces the same heart-slowing effect on a seal at the edge of a tank; a seal swimming free, close to the surface, aware that it can raise...
...preserves like Tennessee's Hunter's Haven, the sport is still the thing. Hunters are warned not to shoot females or small, "nontrophy" animals. Baits are never used, and "still hunting" (stalking) is encouraged. When it comes to pulling the trigger-even against a charging boar-the hunter is strictly on his own: guides carry no weapons except skinning knives and shinny up the nearest tree at the first hint of danger. "We'll help you find your animal," says Owner Wolfenbarger. "But you have to shoot it yourself...