Word: triggering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egypt, trigger-happy Egyptian irregulars went after British military trains and the British military went after the irregulars. After one day's sporadic firing, the score was: one British military train shot up; three British casualties; 46 Egyptian guerrillas killed, wounded or captured...
...Directions. A light, hard-hitting automatic rifle is something that many allied infantrymen have been praying for ever since World War II. Combat experience showed that bulky semi-automatic rifles (i.e., one shot for each trigger pull), like the 10-lb. U.S. Garand, were too heavy, and fired too slowly for close-in defense. What the infantry wanted was a light rifle that would shoot accurately at long range, and could also double as a Tommy gun for close-in combat...
...Trophy which goes with the title. Later, another tradition was followed when the father of an alumnus invited the varsity members to be his guests for a day of pheasant hunting on his 1,500-acre estate near Princeton. In fine fettle, Tiger Star Dick Kazmaier-proved that his trigger finger was just as good as his passing eye by bagging a brace of birds...
...data, fed it into a boxlike mechanical computer. The No. 3 gun turret swung around toward the target, its 8-in. muzzles rising slowly. Marksheffel dropped a hand, and a seaman pressed a warning buzzer three times with his left hand. With his right, he squeezed a pistol-like trigger, firing the first gun. The ship's crockery rattled as a 260-lb. shell hurtled over the mountain...
...deputy he shined the light in my face and he said to the sheriff, 'That son of a bitch is not dead,' and then he said, 'Let's kill him.' The deputy sheriff then pointed the pistol on me and pulled the trigger, snapped the trigger, and the gun did not shoot. He took it around to the car lights and looked in it and shined the light on it. He turned it on me again and pulled it and that time it fired. It went through me here [indicating his neck] and then...