Word: triggering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simply a semi-honorable way of announcing "I'm scared to death, couldn't we possibly call this thing off?" English at last perceived, however, that Foster's honor would not be satisfied without being fired upon. Consequently, on the third exchange English levelled his bead and pulled the trigger. Foster fell dramatically to the ground, and English, thinking his opponent dead or wounded, left the field. Thereupon, Foster resurrected himself and proceeded back to Cambridge for the morning's classes...
...West Germany a Foreign Office official treated himself to a figure of speech: "The trigger was pulled in Moscow, the bang was heard in Vienna, but the shot fell in Bonn...
Slightly pessimistic about the long-rung chances of stopping the Communists from taking over the rest of Europe and Asia without a world war, those polled overwhelmingly favored fighting the Russians as a last resort. But, Stouffer said, "the American people are not trigger-happy. They want to avoid war if possible." Sixty-one percent still wanted the U.S. to try to talk things over with Russia to settle the problem...
...letters to God dealing with the minutiae of the half-enchanted, half-commercial public-private life personifying an American folk myth-the Cowboy. The six children have to be hustled off to school, the washing machine must be fixed, travel is an endless series of personal appearances, interviews, awards. Trigger walks four flights upstairs and shakes a bridle-full of daffodils over the ailing Roy to cheer him. And God is always there...
Tony married handsome Shauna ("Miss Utah State") Wood, quit the University of Cincinnati, and began playing harder than ever. But turning tennis into a business did not come easy. Bothered by blisters and hampered by a hair-trigger temper. Tony won only one major title (French singles) all last year. Only as a member of the successful U.S. Davis Cup team (TIME, Jan. 10) did he come up to his old form. Time was running out: another year as an also-ran and Tony might have to pick a new profession...