Word: bullets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Muttering hoarsely, the gun-woman scurried around the bench and let four more shots fly at the terrified old jurist. A bullet in the right hip knocked him down a second time. A bullet in the left thigh knocked him down a third time. A bullet grazed his knee just before bailiffs over-powered his would-be murderess...
Anguished but cool, the Fascist Commander whipped out his revolver, took careful aim, fired. A bullet sped, clipping a fragment out of the stone column behind which Communist Missiroli was hiding. Again the Fascist Commander took a careful bead, pulled the trigger. Communist Missiroli, with a cry of pain and rage, dropped dead...
With their trigger-fingers itching, elephant slayers prospective and proved pondered this story from Captain Pitman: A ranger fired one .256-calibre bullet into an elephant standing in a clearing on a slope. Down fell the elephant dead, and rolled down the slope. Like any good hunter in any good story, the ranger hurried to the spot. There he found, not one dead elephant, but four dead elephants. Explanation: the shot elephant had killed two others on its downhill roll. The fourth had chosen that spot to die of bullets, evidently a month before...
Thus threatened, Consul Chapman retreated step by step to his bedroom, the peons making no demands but simply prodding him on. There the man with the revolver suddenly fired at point blank range, sending a bullet into Mr. Chapman's left breast which fortunately passed cleanly through, not leaving a mortal wound. An instant later both peons dashed from the house...
Fred Kurd opened his mouth and, with his teeth, grabbed a marked bullet out of the air. The bullet had been fired from an ancient horse pistol...