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Word: vuciterna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...might spring at any convenient throat. When cross examination began all eyes were fixed upon Bebe, ears strove to catch the answers which he made in thick, ungracious tones interspersed with grunts. It was all so primitive, so fascinating, that no one noticed another Albanian, one Ziga Vuciterna, who arose pantherlike among the spectators, stealthily drew two revolvers, advanced upon Prisoner Bebe with a wild and sudden yell, and opened a murderous double fire of dum-dum bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Blood Feuds | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

When Two-Gun-Man Ziga Vuciterna looked up from his work there was no other living soul to be seen in court. Wild-eyed but no longer violent the Dum-Dum Murderer reversed both his pistols in his hands, turning them upon himself, and stood in this peculiar attitude until bailiffs plucked up courage to come in and arrest him and the judge crawled out from under his bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Blood Feuds | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...utterly shocked and totally unsympathetic Czechoslovaks, DumDum mer Vuciterna growled an explanation: "I shot him because of a blood feud. We have many in Albania. I did only what any Albanian would. Our code of honor demands a life for a life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Blood Feuds | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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