Word: triggers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Behind Luchese, however, lay an eventful career. His acquaintances included Costello, ex-Vice Lord Charles ("Lucky") Luciano (see INTERNATIONAL), and a host of real, gun-toting hoods, among them "Trigger Mike" Coppola, Joe Stracci alias Joe Stretch, and Costello's man Friday, "Big Jim" O'Connell. Luchese was convicted of possession of a stolen automobile in 1922, but he managed to beat two arrests for murder, one for vagrancy and one for receiving stolen goods. It was while being fingerprinted during one of these brushes with the law that he got his alias. As a young man, Luchese...
...summit the two sergeants froze. Just ahead, almost within touching distance, a Chinese stood vaguely silhouetted against the dark sky. They tensed to tackle him; their mission was to bring back a prisoner. But in that split second, warned by smell or some faint sound, the Chinese touched the trigger of his burp gun. Main shot the prisoner-to-be instantly and regretfully with his .45, but the second sergeant rolled backward down the hill with an astounded gasp, slugs in his arm, leg and belly. After that the night was noisy with gunfire...
Trinity Methodist Church in Los Angeles found a new way to increase Sunday-school attendance last week: it got Hollywood Cowboy Roy Rogers to come and bring his clever blond horse Trigger...
Wolff thinks the Russians will not intervene on the front, but are there to practice using complicated equipment-- "after all, anybody can pull a trigger...
...Elizabeth had been married for 50 years; he did not see how he could get along without her. He reached down and opened the suitcase, and took out the .32-caliber revolver he had hidden there. He put the muzzle against his wife's temple and pulled the trigger. The shot killed Elizabeth instantly...