And even after the guns of war fall silent, the ravages of war will continue.

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When the big guns of retail wage war, shareholders may lose, but consumers win.

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He also promised measures to fight crime, including stiffer penalties for the illegal use of guns, and a war on corruption.

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In fact, even though they were forced to sell their family-named company off before the start of World War II, after the guns stopped firing they found themselves missing the smell of burnt rubber and racetracks.

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Thus, members of congress have voted for the production of a certain type of ammunition that is manufactured in their own district, while also voting against the production of the guns that use that caliber of ammo to demonstrate their anti-war bona fides.

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Half a century after the guns fell silent in World War II, Asia is enjoying a hard-won stretch of peace and prosperity.

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This is a town that was founded during World War II to supply metal for planes, for guns, for the arsenal of democracy that freed the world from tyranny.

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In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman chronicled how a cascading series of seemingly minor developments led inexorably to World War I and the worst carnage known to man up to that time.

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"He was reading 'The Guns of August'" Sorenson told him, which documented how miscalculation and momentum propelled the nations of Europe into World War I.

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