Word: triggering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mike," she murmurs, toying with the buttons of her blouse. "Ride your imagination. Get it all out . . ." She lifts her lips to his. Gently he squeezes the trigger and blows a hole in her belly (the dame had it coming to her). "Then she went down like soft rope," says Mike as the film ends, "and there was only one thing left to do. Order a basket...
...Trigger-nerved, bilious, plagued with insomnia, Carlyle found a captivated as well as a captive audience in wife Jane, who shared all of his symptoms and capped them with migraine headaches of her own. Many a letter finds Carlyle with his ear cupped to the inner symphony of psychosomatic complaints: "Alas, alas, I am losing my eyesight (sad symptom of bile) by stooping over this flat table." In the country, a cow lowing in pasture could ruin his night's sleep. London was all "noise, unwholesomeness, dirt and fret." In Germany, all coffee resembled a "physic." Paris proved...
...earmarks of genuine revolt, checked sternly and bloodily by Soviet military might and trigger-quick Red German police, but not by any means extinguished. It seemed spontaneous and uncoordinated, but tailored to a strikingly universal pattern that showed that the old techniques and militance of German social democracy had not been crushed by eight years of Red oppression...
...finest officer in the Army.' During two weeks' maneuvers I heard several so lauded. The one officer who probably was praised more highly than any other during the maneuvers was Colonel Dwight D. Eisenhower, 50-year-old Texan, a red-faced, trigger-brained officer who was made a brigadier general a day or two after the maneuvers had ended . . . Well-informed Army men predict that Eisenhower will be a major general within six months...
Only one other event in Atlanta had a larger turnout (6,000) that night: a horse opera featuring Hollywood Cowboy Roy Rogers and Trigger (in person), with Atlanta merchants dealing out the tickets...