Word: triggering
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Hungarian-born Robert Capa, a friendly enemy alien, was in a tough spot. Hopefully, he yelled back, "Take it easy!" but the trigger-happy G.I., hearing his guttural accent, began to shoot. There was only one thing...
...chief varmint of all, as Jake saw it, was a brash little guy with a quick trigger finger. His name was Bobby Riggs, twice world's professional tennis champion, and he was always yammering that Bobby Riggs was the world's greatest tennis star. Jake guessed he would have to go gunning for Bobby some...
...kidneys are only the trigger. What pulls the trigger? The Trueta group's guess: shocks to the nervous system, arising either from injuries or emotional stresses and strains...
Father's flat, sinister voice is probably the most familiar and vicious in radio's rogues' gallery. It seems that scarcely a crime is committed on the air these summer days without Ralph Bell having a trigger finger in it. His ominous accents exude the criminal essence so unfailingly that many directors hate to entrust a "hardened criminal" role to anyone else...
...slingshot. It shoots BB-sized ball-bearing pellets, carefully machined so that they will fly straight. The propellant is a thick rubber band inside the barrel. The gun is cocked by stretching the band taut with a metal piece containing the pellet, which slides inside the barrel. The trigger releases the slide which snaps out the pellet...