Word: triggering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City's harassed and trigger-tempered bus drivers were given instructions for the holiday season. Instead of roaring: "Back in da bus!" they were asked to call out, "Please step toward the rear" in a "pleasant tone of voice...
...visible wirepulling, showed no interest in kingmaking, and-except for visits with aging, trigger-tempered Teamster Chief Dan Tobin-he steered clear of smoke-filled rooms. With beet-faced vehemence, he denied a rumor which had gotten to Cincinnati before him-that he was hell bent to boot old Dan out of office and grab the teamsters' presidency for himself. "Mr. Tobin," he said, with dignity, "is like a father...
When the MIT trigger-man reached for the detonator, he was seized by a plain-clothesman from the Brighton police force, which had been called in by the HAA Thursday...
...student who set up the trigger-point is said to have had a surplus of wire and merely hid it under a pile of leaves since he had no pliers or tape needed for splicing
...Miss Mac has known quite a few jobs, ranging from a teacher in grade school to wartime director of the WAVES (TIME, March 12, 1945). At 36, she was Wellesley's second youngest president. University presidents, resigned to each other's ponderous speeches, always perk up when trigger-quick Mildred McAfee Horton gets up to speak. Her best-known dictum justifying girls' schools against the advocates of coeducation: "It is easier to be scholarly when the boy friend is an event rather than a habit...