Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a slightly hollow ring to Governor Barnett's attempt to blame the Sunday night riots at the University of Mississippi on "inexperienced, nervous, and trigger-happy" Federal marshals. His pious requests for law and order have not undone the many years of demagoguery and defiance...
Perhaps the ideological dust and heat generated by this little island will long outlive any effort at rapprochements; perhaps the most violently committed elements of political life and the press will never forgive this Administration a moment of sanity in the madhouse they have helped create. But until the trigger is pulled, there is still hope for restraint...
...Kennedy's special representative. General Watson, in a complex chain of command from the Pentagon and the State Department, can hardly make a move without clearing it in advance with Washington. Like the men under him. he lives with the somber instructions that a single rash decision could trigger World...
Holed up in the rugged, isolated mountain country that straddles the borders of Syria, Turkey, Iran, Russia and Iraq, the Kurds are a rebellious, trigger-happy breed who distrust the Arabs and traditionally hanker after little more than a fine horse, a good rifle, and a woman who can bear strong sons. For the past year, however, Iraq's Kurds have been in open revolt, last April demanded an autonomous Kurdish state in northern Iraq. Led by Red-leaning Mustafa Barzani, a onetime mullah (religious teacher) who spent twelve years of exile in Russia, Kurdish rebels have seized control...
Composer Cage decided to "make use of the things that were right there," i.e., the Muzak speakers and some closed-circuit television cameras set up to watch the lobby. Cage wanted the TV to trigger the Muzak whenever people passed by or got in and out of elevators. But such familiar Muzak as Stardust and I'm in the Mood for Love would become electronically pulverized and filtered if Cage had his way, and there would be times when the traffic was light and there would be no music at all. The directors rejected the idea. Explained a vice...