Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reported Japanese proposal that the U.S. demilitarize Pearl Harbor: "This country is. . .ready to pull the trigger if the Japs do anything . . . That's the first time that any damn Jap has told us to get out of Hawaii...
...hands of a trigger-happy administration, a draft could be used to smooth the way toward ill-advised U.S. adventurism along the lines of Lyndon Johnson's Southeast Asia strategy of 1966 and 1967. Volunteers became rarer during that period, but LBJ could depend on a steady flow of conscripted bodies to keep the troop planes full...
...relative infrequency of earthquakes in this region in the past 200 years makes it unlikely that another one of the same magnitude will occur in the near future, John Haller, professor of Geology, said yesterday. Earthquakes in the northeast do not normally trigger a whole line of successive quakes, as they do around the Pacific Ocean, he added...
Unfortunately, Scott makes an abrupt exit after the film's first half-hour, and we are left with his trigger-happy progeny. Director Harold Becker marches the pint-sized terrorists back and forth across the campus, back and forth,back and forth until he is absolutely sure that we see them as soldiers, not as kids. There is endless dialogue about honor and Bache's honor and honoring Bache, as the film deteriorates into a series of tedious confrontations: alarmed parents and stubborn offspring, level-headed National Guard colonel and misguided rebel leader, misguided rebel leader and cynical best friend...
Assassination: no other crime so thoroughly wrenches the world to attention. The killer squeezes a trigger (the gunfire always surprising bystanders with its weightless pop! pop!), and civilization itself seems to scramble hysterically before him. For an instant, the assassin's life of brooding impotence is stood on its head: he has at last obliged the powerful to take him into account...