Word: triggering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from being freed, as the detective had promised, Danny, Grace and Chan were all indicted for murder. Under Illinois law, Danny's admission made each as culpable as if each had admitted pulling the trigger. Grace was later acquitted for lack of clear links to the crime, and the charges against Chan were dropped. As for Danny, although he recanted his statement, the trial judge ruled it voluntary, dismissed his handcuffing as "ordinary police procedure," and sentenced him to 20 years...
...twelve years he performs only for a microphone in a recording studio, and only rarely at that. To Horowitz fans, the disks are photographs pressed in an album; they trigger memories, but there is no blood in them. He is enveloped in mystery. Cultists transform him into a deity. He becomes a legend, never seen, yet somehow remembered. Then, in 1965, he realizes that he and an entire generation are strangers. Quixotically he announces that after twelve sheltered years in the wings he will go onstage again...
Death Revealed. Trigger, 33, Roy Rogers' original palomino stallion, whose 65 hard-learned tricks won him star billing in 86 movies, a feat unmatched by his successor, Trigger Jr., 28, who does 45 stunts, but never went beyond rodeo appearances and television shows; of old age; last July; at Hidden Valley, Calif. Rogers says he withheld the announcement because he could not bear to break the news to the horse's devoted fans, who still write to "Trigger, U.S.A." "I just couldn't see covering him up," says Roy, and so Trigger has been stuffed, to stand...
...hatreds run deep. Makarios, now President of Cyprus, considers Grivas a trigger-happy jackboot bent on grabbing full power on the island. Grivas in turn claims that Makarios is vacillating, dishonest, and a dupe of the Communists, who has no intention of honoring his pledge to bring about enosis, the unity of Cyprus with Greece. In 1964, the Greek government seemed to side with Grivas when it sent him to Nicosia to take charge of Cyprus' 11,000-man National Guard, the regular 950-man Greek army contingent, and some 8,500 mainland "volunteers" stationed in Cyprus to help...
Abroad, the most common charge against the U.S. is that it is impetuous, trigger-happy, and always looking for quick, easy solutions. President Johnson's recent peace offensive, sending a squad of envoys zinging around the world, was widely considered too high-pressure. On the other hand, many are all for American impatience. "Cows are patient, but I never thought of Americans as bovine," says Adman David Ogilvy. "The Russians are patient-they like their movies six hours long. The French are patient-they spend five hours preparing their meals. Patience is for peasants...