1.   But he left the word gunsel because Hammett had used it so casually that Shaw took it for granted that the word pertained to a hired gunman.

2.   Mora said his brother was shot by a hired gunman.

3.   The daytime killing of Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu by a hired gunman in Mexico City stunned the country.

4.   The officials said the pattern most often has been for a hired gunman who is unknown in New York to be flown in for such a job.

5.   A French expatriate working for a luxury hotel in a southern beach resort was shot dead by suspected hired gunmen, police said Thursday.

6.   A Thai businesswoman suspected of masterminding the murder of a prominent media executive was shot dead by hired gunmen, The Nation newspaper reported on Sunday.

7.   After the slaying, allegedly by hired gunmen, a panel of other judges overturned the graft conviction.

8.   Armed clashes frequently follow when the property owners or their hired gunmen try to throw them out.

9.   He also argued that the squatters acted in self-defense after the landowner and his hired gunmen opened fire on them.

10.   In earlier elections, hired gunmen have stuffed ballot boxes, fired weapons to scare away voters and clashed with political rivals.