Word: triggering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bold show of opposition might rally the government's disorganized enemies to guerrilla war and sabotage that would, if long continued, shake Batista's government down. Last week, with bombing, killing and arson on the rise, the regime was clearly fearful of such a possibility-and trigger-happy at the thought...
...kill me-then I grabbed the bottom of the gun-I reached up. I hit him, I shot him-I didn't mean to-I wanted to get away-he was standing there with the end-I grabbed and he wouldn't-and I just pulled the trigger-I didn't want to shoot him-I was trying to get the gun away so he wouldn't shoot me any more-he grabbed the phone-he fell off the chair-I grabbed the phone-I told him I didn't mean to hurt...
...Lloyd protested: "There was no prior agreement between us." Despite their words, there was plenty of evidence to show that the two attacks were planned in collusion ("orchestration" was the French word for it). In this conspiracy, France was the instigator, Britain a belated partner, and Israel the willing trigger...
...crowd was still nervous and trigger-happy, and newcomers were astonished at how many hands would come out of pockets clutching hand grenades when the cry "Panzer" went up, as a T-34 rumbled into a street, or when a few shots hammered through the air from no one knew where...
...corral. They call her Lowney. Her star pupil, and still the star boarder at the Handy colony, is James (From Here to Eternity) Jones. To him Lowney is an inspiring evangelist of talent who "taught me everything I know." To less favored literary aspirants whom the trigger-tempered Lowney has not hesitated to cast into the outer dark, she is an unpalatable blend of army top kick and prison warden, running a literary brainwashing machine...