Word: triggering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strong an affinity for his buddy as for his wife-or even his mother, once he has been weaned. But, says the expert, the rage and the lust in him are perpetually rampant. Everything he possesses, everything he is, he owes to the intellectual control that stays the trigger finger...
...political prisoner has been pardoned by Russia's Premier (Laurence Olivier) after 20 years in a slave-labor camp. The freed man is no ordinary convict: he is Kiril Lakota, a tough, Mindszenty-like Slavic archbishop. Lakota has been sprung because Russia and China stand ready to trigger an atomic holocaust. The premier, who just happens to be La-kota's former inquisitor, is desperately gambling that the prelate can somehow persuade the world that the Soviet Union wants peace...
...models priced from $2.95 to $125 in a choice of 21 languages, including Greek and Japanese, and with tapes in 26 different colors. Most models resemble a hand gun, and all have a circular dial with letters and numbers. The user dials his choice, then squeezes the trigger. Out ticks the adhesive tape, ready for use on hundreds of items, from mailboxes to children's toys to underground cables...
...Humphrey claims to support the rational recommendations of the Kerner report. In the light of his hair-trigger snaps of "shut up" to hecklers, I seriously question his capacity of restraint and better judgment, were he faced with the problem of dealing with violence and crime...
Actress Danièle Gaubert was in Rome filming Camille 2,000, a futuristic version of Dumas fils' classic, and gossip columnists made the most of every rumor about her life and hard times with ex-husband, Rhadamés Trujillo. The trigger-tempered playboy son of the late Dominican dictator had held her a virtual prisoner of love at his European estates for almost five years-or so the stories went. Then the romantic legend began to falter, as Danièle missed her cue and told reporters: "It's true that my husband wanted...