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Seven other members of the Security Council were willing to agree with Vishinsky that there had been a sort of precipitancy. One by one they rose to deplore the hasty-and criminal-Soviet attack. Said Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon: "Trigger-happy." Snapped an angry Andrei : the Security Council had no business discussing the case, and he would veto any attempt to pursue it further...
Conditions of Survival. "We of the free world should avoid panic and provocation . . . We should be 'trigger-ready' without being 'trigger-happy' . . . The kind of coexistence with Communism which I have been describing is not. of course, 'peaceful,' in the sense that it is founded on friendship and cooperation. It is hardly more than mutual toleration...
...time that moviegoers might fittingly be provided with white coats. Still, the general impression is that he acts a good deal more imaginatively than he ever sang. Good shot: the triggerman, boobytrapped by an automatic rifle wired up to a high-voltage line, twitching convulsively as he squeezes the trigger and beats out a ballistic boogie...
...elaborate plan to secure his dream house against trespassers. Inside the pantry he set up a loaded .22-cal. pistol. Only the tip of the barrel protruded from the paneling, pointed at the level of a man's heart toward the pantry door. From the hidden trigger, the captain connected a piece of cord to the door handle and completed his booby trap...
...more bandaged soldiers in the grim De Lanessan hospital, and there were many more planes in the sky. Sometimes the French 105-mms. pounded unseen targets unusually close to the suburbs; or an alien burst of machine-gun fire slashed across one of the two city airfields; or a trigger-happy Senegalese sentry fired and shouted in the dark. French and Vietnamese housewives were finding everyday items much harder to get, much more expensive, as the businessmen started to pull...