Word: triggering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...start a world war; that the capacity to destroy New York and Detroit is not good enough if it results in the destruction of Moscow and Leningrad; that the Russian junta is not sufficiently in control of its own people, or secure enough from its own rivalries, to trigger World War III; that the new gang is a somewhat sedentary set of revolutionaries (compared, for example, with the cockier, more aggressive new rulers of China). Some or all of these assumptions might be fatally wrong, but they are widely held...
...good guys on TV last week were, as usual, giving the bad guys their lumps. As millions of youngsters watched in beady-eyed fascination, Roy Rogers (with the help of Dale and Trigger) got the drop on some slow-witted fur thieves; Hopalong Cassidy (with help from his younger brother ) corralled a batch of badmen who had holed up in a gold mine; the Lone Ranger (with help from Tonto and his horse Silver) outwitted a pseudo-Englishman and won an inheritance which -naturally -he promptly donated to a worthy cause...
Seven other members of the Security Council were willing to agree with Vishinsky that there had been a sort of precipitancy. One by one they rose to deplore the hasty-and criminal-Soviet attack. Said Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon: "Trigger-happy." Snapped an angry Andrei : the Security Council had no business discussing the case, and he would veto any attempt to pursue it further...
Conditions of Survival. "We of the free world should avoid panic and provocation . . . We should be 'trigger-ready' without being 'trigger-happy' . . . The kind of coexistence with Communism which I have been describing is not. of course, 'peaceful,' in the sense that it is founded on friendship and cooperation. It is hardly more than mutual toleration...
...time that moviegoers might fittingly be provided with white coats. Still, the general impression is that he acts a good deal more imaginatively than he ever sang. Good shot: the triggerman, boobytrapped by an automatic rifle wired up to a high-voltage line, twitching convulsively as he squeezes the trigger and beats out a ballistic boogie...