Word: gunplay
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Before the action ends in a satisfactory bang, there is an uninterrupted spate of sinkings, gunplay, throat-slittings, cliff-hangings, captures and escapes, surrounded by sound technical information. For the young in heart it is great stuff-a first-rate derring-documentary. As in H.M.S. Ulysses, Novelist MacLean sternly eschews sex. A man needs every ounce of strength to punch out novels like this...
...tamed the hard-drinking cowhands). At this point in the book, the apparatus of scholarship gets to work. The reader is told that a cowboy seldom fought with a gun and never with his fists, but elected what the modern delinquent calls a shiv (knife); that most of the gunplay in Dodge City was caused by non-cowboys; that Billy the Kid was a product of New York's Bowery; that Calamity Jane claimed that she never went to bed sober...
...provide electronic equipment to missionaries around the world. Vaus, his wife Alice and three children live on $400 a month. Missionary Communication Service stands to profit by the movie version of Jim's life. Except for an inspirational ending, it is an orthodox crime thriller, complete "with gunplay and side-mouthed snarls. The big conversion scene shows Billy Graham at work, and he might move some spectators as he did the movie's hero. But after a recent Los Angeles preview, one preacher rose to strike a blow for those who abhor the idea of luring people into...
...cops also nabbed a touring New Yorker, Martin Irving LipStein, 34, who had arrived before the killing and aroused suspicion by his eagerness to leave the next day. Lipstein produced an alibi, swearing that he had been rubbernecking at ships in the canal at the hour of gunplay, and his release was expected early this week. Dozens of others were run in. By week's end, implicitly confessing bafflement, the police were importing detectives from New York, Cuba, Costa Rica and Venezuela...
...ready for the Reds. When they organized a 24-hour general strike last week in industrial São Paulo, he relieved the local army commander as a suspected Red sympathizer, ordered troops and police to keep the public services going, and, most important, ended the day without gunplay or violence...