Word: bullets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southern city in which they are to meet is disgraced by an unspeakable act of savagery. There is no other way to describe the performance of the eight armed white men who yanked Robert Powell, 24-year-old Negro, from a hospital cot on which he lay with a bullet in his stomach, and hanged him from a bridge just outside the city...
...Bullet in his entrails...
Just before daylight two Hammond policemen came upon the bloody contents of Spooner's Nook. The object in the bushes, the two objects in the ditched car, were dead men's bodies, ragged with bullet-holes, sticky...
...Berlin last week, the May Day methods of the police (TIME, May 13) were bitterly assailed. Communist sympathizers pointed out that during the four days' rioting that followed Bloody May Day. only one policeman received a bullet wound-an accidental wound inflicted by himself. Of the rioters, 27 were killed, more than 100 injured. Scores of non-Communist shopkeepers from the riotous Berlin districts said that they did not see a single civilian shoot at the police...
...Johnson also has had exciting times with these animals. She was photographing one once when it started to charge her. "I grabbed my title but my chance of escape was small. There are only three small spots on the elephant head where a bullet proves fatal. The guns we use make a 45 look like a toy, and yet an elephant can digest a good four shots from them. This time luck was with me; the animal crumpled and fell 15 feet in front...