Word: triggering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Automatic Trigger. The heart of the Senate bill is the "automatic triggering device." Under its terms, federal registrars (or "examiners," as the bill calls them) will be empowered to suspend literacy tests and register voters without them in states and counties where 1) such tests were used as a voting qualification as of last Nov. 1, and 2) less than 50% of the voting-age population were registered to vote or actually cast ballots in the 1964 presidential election. The device will automatically send federal examiners into Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and a number of counties in other...
...enough for the cops to find a translator to call U.S. officials. To avoid accidents, however, avoid night driving. Roads are full of unlighted oxcarts and parked trucks with snoozing drivers. If he bumbles into forbidden areas at night, a tourist may find his car and himself ventilated by trigger-happy guards. Equally dangerous: trading black-market dollars or defacing Tito's ubiquitous pictures...
...roles, and it is chiefly interesting for the appearance of Actor Parks, cast as Adam in John Huston's forthcoming The Bible. As Bus Riley, Parks will inevitably be compared to James Dean and Marlon Brando, but that need not discourage him. His own assurance, intensity, and hair-trigger temperament make even unoriginal sin worth watching...
...drafted into the army in 1943 and trained as a machine gunner, but he fluffed his one chance to use his weapon. While riding a half-track in the last days of the war, he spotted a couple of German soldiers, wheeled his gun into position and pulled the trigger. "It just went click." He had forgotten to load...
...under Goldwater. To begin with, he wrote, "the Viet Cong would have blown up an American barracks. Goldwater would immediately call for a strike on military bases in North Viet Nam and announce a 'new tit-for-tat policy.' Democrats would make speeches that Goldwater was 'trigger-happy' and was trying to get us into a war with Red China...