Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quick on the Trigger. At 6 o'clock Easter morning, the three children rose to inspect Easter baskets and search for eggs in the house and later in the woods behind the presidential cottage. After breakfast, the grownups, dressed in their Easter finest, went to church. Afterward, the President laid the cornerstone for a new church building. A building contractor in the crowd commented on his dexterity with the silver trowel. "I used to do it on the farm," Ike explained with a grin...
...gallery floor, Foreign Affairs Committee Clerk Boyd Crawford heard the shots crack out, raced into the corridor just in time to see the first gunman emerge from the gallery, gun in hand. Crawford, an amateur marksman, lunged for the pistol, jammed his finger into the trigger guard, and with the aid of a bystander, knocked the man to the tiled floor. A page boy and three Congressmen, assisted by a crowd of outraged spectators, subdued and disarmed the other...
...very abundance of modern insecticides often defeats their purpose, and trigger-happy spray gun wielders can do more harm than good. By way of example, said the University of California's A. E. Michelbacher, the practice of dousing walnut trees with DDT to control the codling moth has resulted in plagues of frosted scale and spider mites, organisms which might normally have graced a few codling moths' dinner tables...
...minutes after entering the National Naval Medical Center for a checkup; in Bethesda, Md. During World War II, he helped set up the first A-bomb test at Alamogordo, N. Mex. (1945), three weeks later rode over Japan in the bomb bay of the B-29 Enola Gay to trigger the second Abomb, minutes before it was dropped on Hiroshima...
...your article on the New York City public schools. It is an intelligent and moving insight into the tortuous process of adapting education from its aristocratic traditions into an instrument of service to a democracy . . . By faith, the public schools are trying to move cultural mountains . . . Some of the trigger-happy your critics article, should be and then required to take ' do a homework on postgraduate course at the feet of Principal [Margaret] Douglas and other devoted members of the system...