Word: gunplay
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...also had more crime-in Chicago, barometer of the national mood for larceny and gunplay, the law was broken on 38,533 occasions, 10% oftener than the year before. There were 29,000 traffic deaths, the highest national total since 1941's alltime record...
...cadavers of the military men fell one on the other," reported Mexico City's Excelsior, describing the gunplay at the Eugenia bar. ". . . The blood of both mixed and formed an immense pool under the bodies." Excelsior thought the small-arms engagement "originated from the drunkenness of the officers...
Like the Brown Shirts. This gunplay touched off four days of rioting, unsurpassed in Buenos Aires for 26 years. The same day, while the victory celebrants were whooping it up elsewhere, a score or so of pro-Government hoodlums, "uniformed" in white raincoats and armed with brass knuckles and revolvers, marched down the Calle Florida, Buenos Aires' Fifth Avenue. They shouted "Viva Perón!" "Down with democracy!" "Down with the Jews!" They smashed the windows of pro-Allied shopowners, and looted their window displays...
...removal of the 500-odd generals from active service was not expected to cause either tears or gunplay. The generals would continue to keep their titles-and their salaries...
...nights after the McRae shooting, Selfridge had more gunplay. A sentry discovered two civilians scaling a fence into the field and fired on them when they ignored his command to halt. One escaped in the dark; the other, seriously wounded, was identified as a former Detroit salesman. The Selfridge pot had come to a boil...