Word: triggering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rogers and his wife Dale Evans top the bill at rodeos and circus stops across the country, where they put across a spiritual appeal that sends pistol-packing eight-year-olds off to Sunday school and their moist-eyed parents off to church. With their famed palomino horse, Trigger, they turn out a half-hour television show each week into which they are injecting more and more of a Christian message for the televiewers of 80 stations. They help many religious causes, such as Billy Graham's evangelizing of Britain last spring. Dale's God-centered writings...
...rebels were a desperate crew: 1) Walter Harold Balben, 38, the leader, a husky, trigger-tense gunman and ex-paratrooper, serving sentences of 35 to 49 years, 2) Teddy Green (né Georgacopolis), 39, a notorious, publicity-conscious escape artist and bank robber (he is a major suspect in the $1,219,000 Brinks' robbery), under sentence of 45-52 years, 3) Joseph ("Red") Flaherty, 32, a handsome, fast-talking rapist and thief (35 to 47 years), and 4) Fritz Swenson, 31, a hulking, taciturn cop-killer and a lifer...
...Tinker about U.S. immigration laws, completely overlooking Canada's equally strict screening of aliens. Canadian newspapers railed about the 7% U.S. tariff on Canadian lead, but never mentioned the 25% Canadian duty on U.S. cars. Tinker once heard a Canadian M.P. solemnly talk to a dinner audience about "trigger-happy" U.S. diplomats...
...their faces twisted in hatred and fear, confront each other across a card table. Each holds a revolver within inches of the other's breast, pointed unwaveringly at the heart. There they sit, each with the sure power to cause instant death, yet afraid to squeeze the trigger. For the one who shoots first will himself be killed-by the reflex action of a dying...
Left-wing editorialists seized on Monty's remarks to create a picture of pinheaded generals eager to trigger the world into war. Result: by the time the NATO conference got under way last week, the British and the French were talking up a plan that would require NATO's commanders to consult all 14 governments before answering a Soviet attack with atomic weapons. Such a plan would leave the West helpless during the first vital hours, while the Reds could be atom-bombing at will. John Foster Dulles put forward a compromise solution that won unanimous approval...