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...flames had flared first last year in Leon, where trigger-happy soldiers killed 27 citizens demonstrating against a municipal government that had been "imposed" by bosses. Nationwide indignation drove the governor and mayor from office. Fire blazed again on New Year's Eve when police killed ten demonstrators at Tapachula. on the Guatemalan frontier. There the governor took hasty leave of absence...
...foresight was a fraction below the level of his puckered eye, part of which showed in the aperture of the backsight. He was aiming at my throat. I had had them do that to me before in the camps. They aimed at you and stroked the trigger. For them it was like love making. They knew that you and they had the same thing in mind, the messiness and the pain of death and the amazing fragility of life. I dropped my eyes and shrugged my shoulders a little...
When the jewel woman stepped out onto the jammed platform, Pearl was three steps behind her. She walked steadily, one, two, three, then dropped to one knee and pulled the camera trigger...
...camera was longer and heavier than the first one. Under the Christmas wrapping, Pearl could feel that it had a trigger attachment instead of a string to click the shutter. She gripped the stock hard as the train clattered into the station...
...Outlaw (which started out to be a story of Billy the Kid, but now features Jane Russell) and John Ford's handsome My Darling Clementine. Still to come: ¶ Walt Disney's Pecos Bill, another mixture of cartooning and live action, with Roy Rogers and horse, Trigger. ¶Winchester 73, Walter Wanger's oater-with-psychology, starring Joan Bennett. ¶| Frank Capra's Pioneer Woman. ¶J Cecil B. De Mille's Unconquered, involving Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard in flying tommyhawks. ¶ Warner Bros.' Calamity Jane, with Ann Sheridan. ¶ Paramount...