Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...injured innocents. Why did M. Raoul Desbrosses, director of the Orleans municipal pawnshop, sign worthless bonds so that Stavisky might sell them? "Stavisky was desperate!" cried Defendant Desbrosses last week. "When I refused to sign, he drew a pistol, pressed it to his temple, and threatened to pull the trigger. I signed to prevent him from committing suicide and because I could not bear the scandal of having a man found shot dead in my office!" Why did the jewel expert M. Emile Farault appraise as genuine jewels some synthetic emeralds said by Stavisky to belong to a company headed...
...thought, 'I might not a got him but if I shoot him one more time I'll know I have him.' So I took both hands and I leaned over him and I took dead aim right between his eyes and I pulled the trigger. Then I saw the blood spurt and I knew I had him. Then I put my gun down in my jeans and I took out the streetcar a aimin' to go to Kentucky to my pappy's. . . . But first I had me a bite...
...miles at a cost of $160,000,000. Sprawled over three hills Aduwa was a collection of low-walled huts, some thatched, some roofed with corrugated iron, that housed some 3,000 souls. Count Ciano squinted down through his bomb sights and pulled the trigger...
...tripped trigger and the Crimson harriers wil be off at full cry this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock in their opener with Holy Cross. Lining up on the Cambridge side of the Charles just above the Larz Anderson Bridge, the racers will follow the same four mile course as last year, breaking the tape in front of the Newell Bont House...
...chamber and started down the corridor to Governor Allen's office, flanked, as always, by his bodyguards. A young man in a white suit, lurking in a corner, stepped out into the Senator's path, shoved a small revolver against his right side, pulled the trigger. There was a muffled explosion. One of the Long bodyguards grappled with the assassin. He fired again, searing the bodyguard's thumb. Then the young man in the white suit went down under a rain of submachine gun bullets...