Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...training and operation of a navy. It is based on and is designed to support national policies and national interests." The admirals do not make those national policies and national interests or the wars each may beget. That is the political job of civilian statesmen. The admirals pull the trigger after the gun has been aimed for them...
...were three Texas officers. Sheriff Jordon of Bienville Parish and a deputy. There they met two people for whom Captain Hamer had been look-ing for the last six months. One was a red-haired Dallas girl whose maiden name was Bonnie Parker. Her distinguishing characteristics were a lightning trigger finger, a fondness for cigars, and a heart bearing the name "Roy" tattooed on her thigh. Roy Thornton was the name of her husband, but since he began serving a long sentence at Houston, Tex., her companion has been the other person for whom Captain Hamer was looking-Clyde Barrow...
...those who prefer a well rounded story with balanced presentation will be unsatisfied. Miss Hepburn, whose Hollywood career has been what they call "dynamic," finds a role that is still different from any of her others in the rustic lass of the Tonnessee mountains, who merits the name "Trigger" and the picture's title, "Spitfire...
...campaign against Wet Presidential Candidate Al Smith, one contribution alone from Hooverite Edwin C. Jameson had amounted to $65,300. These and other funds, the Government alleged, had been used in Virginia and all over the South. "Bishop Cannon was shooting a double-barreled gun with a single trigger," declared the prosecutor. "Miss Burroughs shut her eyes and put her head in the sand...
Despite his enthusiasm for the vigorous pioneer life which continually comes to the fore in descriptions such as that of Lewis as a "youthful captain. . . . . straight as a white oak. . . . . and steady of eye and trigger-finger", Mr. Wilson must have soon learned why others had not attempted to write a biography of his chosen hero. Lewis was far from being an outstanding man and except for his leadership of the Expedition of Discovery (whose success may with greater justice be attributed to William Clark, the second in command) which he received through the patronage of Thomas Jefferson...