Word: weapon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...armored trucks drove through Hornby Street, Bombay's Fifth Avenue. Police accompanied them, carrying a new weapon, canes three feet long with leather thongs at the end. With these they flogged satyagrahists (civil disobedience volunteers). They arrested 26 pickets of British stores, who within one hour were sentenced to four months hard labor. At once 26 replacements appeared before the stores...
About the crimes of Düsseldorf's coachman there was nothing remarkable, except that for 16 months their author invariably escaped. His weapon was a common penknife. Walking up to a woman in some secluded spot he would address her courteously, watch his chance to seize her with a firm, stifling grip. In a nearby shelter of some sort?always carefully chosen? Coachman Kuerten would then deal with his victim, usually ending by hacking her lifeless body into an almost unrecognizable state with his penknife...
...only effective weapon business could draw against Stalin would be an international Capitalist boycott of the Soviet State...
Yesterday afternoon a 49-year-old employee of the central packing house at Middelburg intended to kill a cow. Just when he was ready to fire the gun, the cow, with its head, pushed the weapon out of his hand. As it fell to the floor, it went off and the man was shot in the abdomen. He died at once...
...Shanghai banking circles last week to have signed a secret treaty promising repayment to Japan of the $50,000,000 Nishihara loans which his Government previously declared illegal. Thus quiet Mr. Soong, the Shanghai banker who will have to find the $50,000,000, may yet draw the strongest weapon which can be drawn in China? Japan...