Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exactly a year and a day after the gang's escape in Greenfield, James Dalhover, its "trigger man," walked into Dakin's store for the second time, to pick up his merchandise. Said he: "Where's the stuff I ordered?" The clerk who stepped forward was not Hurd but Walter Walsh, a crack G-man and specialist in trick shots. Walsh's job was to signal 13 more G-men, 30 Bangor patrolmen and a squad of Indiana and Maine State troopers posted outside the store as soon as a member of the Brady gang came...
Russell is the first string center, and as the only veteran on the center squad, his loss will be keenly felt. To help plug the gap, Dick Harlow has decided to move versatile Cliff Wilson to the trigger position from his post at guard. Although Rick Hedblom, Dan Cheever and Bill Coleman have developed fast his fall, they are not sufficiently seasoned to start a Varsity game. A bad case of nerves usually accompanies a debut into Varsity competition and is often costly. At the center post it is usually fatal...
...Jewish member of the 1936 U. S. Olympic team who was withdrawn from his events in Berlin, let it be known that in Mae West's next picture, Every Day's a Holiday, he will be one of a crowd in a New York saloon known as Trigger Luke...
...Their Eyes Were Watching God, an upstanding coffee-colored quadroon outlasts all three of her men-the last only because she was quicker on the trigger than he was-goes back to her village to rest in peace and to make her friends' eyes bug out at the tales of what she and life have done together...
...Richest Man in Spain,'' Monarchist Count of Romanones and racketeer-tycoon Juan March, the uneducated, onetime tobacco smuggler. Date of the uprising was set for July 25, 1936, the feast of Santiago (St. James). The murder of Fascist Deputy Jose Calvo Sotelo on July 12 pulled the trigger prematurely...