Word: gunshots
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...there was some minimizing of damage in British statements. Undoubtedly, too, the North Sea, with its curtains of fog and blankets of cloud, is not a good place for Air Power to prove itself better than Sea Power. But the fact that the British risked their heavy ships within gunshot of Stavanger gave strong evidence of Allied confidence after a week of testing against Marshal Göring's sky terror. The safe landing in Norway of most of three divisions of Allied land forces added proof to confidence...
SOUTH PITTSBURGH, Tenn.--Twelve men suffered gunshot wounds--none serious--in a clash between members of rival coal miners' unions near the Battle Creek Mining Company today...
...Oklahomans. On April 22, 1889, a gunshot at noon opened the State's choice Indian Territory land to 20,000 settlers lined along the border. Racing frontiersmen found many of the best spots already occupied by border-jumpers who had got there "sooner." * In 1913, Carlton Chilton, then 17, grabbed $2,000 from a bank counter on the spur of the moment, while a clerk was out to lunch...