Word: triggering
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...position had the simple clarity of a stone wall. One nervous twitch of a Japanese trigger finger, one jump in any direction, one overt act, might be enough. A vast array of armies, of navies, of air fleets were stretched now in the position of track runners, in the tension of the moment before the starter...
...constabulary rounded up Moro outlaws who seized on the panic for raids on unprotected villages. But against the real juramentados there was nothing to do except keep trigger fingers limber. No one could say which Moro might suddenly run amuck, or where...
This arrangement, worked out by Jackson and Henderson, was a rebuke to rambunctious Thurman Arnold. For some time Jackson has thought Arnold was getting too nervous a trigger finger, scattering his shot, using the laws to advance his own theories about the danger of monopoly rather than as a weapon to aid defense...
...days and nights the troops maneuvered, "fighting" desperately-marching for hours, sleeping in uniform, attacking in realistic attitudes, simulating war up to the very trigger-pull. The defenders discovered the "Nazis' " main attack, concentrated at the strategic point, hemmed in the invaders, and in a vast tank battle drove them back to the sea. Then the weary, wiser troops went to bed, hopeful that the real performance would not differ much from the dress rehearsal...
...show always has an impromptu atmosphere on the air and has a bad habit of running long, as Bing never holds a full rehearsal. If anything goes wrong, Bing's trigger-quick tongue is a certain safeguard. Recently, when Guest Jackie Cooper dropped his drummer's sticks during an act, Bing filled in with: "Hold the phone, there's been a nasty accident." For his solos, Bing has had one or two rehearsals with the band to get the timing, merely pulls out his pipe and tucks his gum against his teeth when the time comes...