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...from strengthening U.S. diplomacy, the Air Forces' trigger-happiness was likely to embarrass it. State would have to be doubly careful now in approving the flight. What the U.S. clearly needed was a machinery for deciding upon a foreign policy and executing it-a well-oiled, smooth-running machine in which no foreign ear could hear the gears clashing...
...Tami had been quicker on the trigger, he might have followed up his advantage. Instead, he reaped _the whirlwind. While the small (38,494) Yankee Stadium crowd was still oohing in amazement, Louis bounced off the ropes and went to work. Tami went down under a barrage of lefts and rights, got up at the count of nine, landed one more solid sock, took half a dozen in return. Then he slid slowly down the rópes and assumed the inelegant position of 20 Louis challengers before...
...kings to fall was long-faced, impetuous Bill Tilden, whose tennis was good for a 53-year-old but not good enough to beat 30-year-old Wayne Sabin. Sabin advanced to the quarterfinals, there met Britain's onetime Davis Cupper Fred Perry. Falling behind, trigger-tempered Wayne Sabin began swearing and banging balls out of the arena. At one point, Perry stopped the game, announced: "I won't play any more with a man who has such court manners." He was finally persuaded to go on, and lost. In another match, caper-cutting Frank Kovacs, who sometimes...
...them cattle rustlers, and sometimes they were. A wholesale attempt to scare them away by vigilante methods had developed into what the history books call the Johnson County War. Tom Horn had done his bit in this war; he was cocky, range-wise, quick on the draw, an ideal trigger man. But off-duty he drank too much, and talked too much. One day in Cheyenne he boasted to a U.S. marshal that he had clipped young Willie Nickell, a homesteader's son, at 300 yards. "It was the best shot and the dirtiest trick I ever done." Hidden...
...whom nothing really matters. He has no positive beliefs, political or nonpolitical. Before committing the murder, he goes about his daily work, makes friends casually, attends his mother's funeral casually, casually promises to marry a girl. When the time comes. he quite as casually pulls the trigger of the revolver. Meursault does not regret it. Murder, he feels, makes no difference, for everything in life comes "to absolutely the same thing...