Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...library up for sale, some rare literary footnotes came to light. In the margin of one book, scrawled in Twain's own hand, was a note on his attempted suicide in 1866: "I put the pistol to my head but wasn't man enough to pull the trigger. Many times I have been sorry I did not succeed, but I was never ashamed of having tried. Suicide is the only really sane thing the young or the old ever do in this life. 'Feeble Jerusalems' never kill themselves; they survive the attempt...
...starring with Hope will be Trigger, who, according to Miss Hopper, hates Hope...
...spectacle of this society, all the springs of which are taut like the trigger of a weapon that one is about to fire, frightens me to the point of dizziness . . . I see as compensation for the misfortune of being born under this regime only dreams of arrogance and the hope of domination . . . Since I have come to Russia I see the future of Europe in black...
...Christmas Accardo decorated a 40-ft. tree on his lawn, installed electrically driven skaters, which glided around the lawn on tracks to the strains of Christmas carols. Tony wanted to be a good neighbor. He deplores the tattooed dove on his right hand, which twitches when he moves his trigger finger and reminds him of the days when he was an Al Capone bodyguard...
...Chink came up and put his M-t against my head and pulled the trigger. The bullet creased my skull. The muzzle blast nearly tore my eardrum out. I flopped over and pretended I was dead...