Word: davids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know how to use it." First, he jerked his thumb toward the cash register. Nobody moved. Then Robert fired. With scarcely a moment's pause, the boy shot all three men, killing Owner Blair, wounding Kenney and Wilson. Giving up the thought of robbery, the boys fled. David ran home, after firing his gun aimlessly in the street, and was found by police as he sat on his grandmother's lap, crying. Robert hid in an abandoned cotton gin, six blocks from the grocery. The police got him out by dropping tear gas into the building...
...days later County Judge James G. Young ordered David sent to a boys' ranch for delinquent children. Robert, seemingly unperturbed after a good long cry, waited in the county jail. He was charged with murder. In the pleasant streets of Woodward, astonished grownups asked each other how such a thing could happen in their town...
Edward Frederick William David Mukabya Mutesa II, Kabaka (King) of Buganda, is just about the most troublesome of all Britain's wards in East Africa, and last week he was making the most of his reputation...
...flawed by wooden pictures, text that sometimes strays too far ahead of or behind the layman, and an overexposure of Huntsville's Spaceman Wernher von Braun. But it already shows improvement. For future numbers it has lined up articles from such experts as Air Force Balloonist Lt. Col. David Simons and Dr. Eugen Sanger. director of West Germany's Institute of Jet Propulsion Physics in Stuttgart...
...Oscars, presented with far less fanfare than the celebrities who handed them out, were almost ignored in the razzle-dazzle. With seven Oscars, The Bridge on the River Kwai swept the field for best picture, best director (David Lean) and best actor (Alec Guinness). Relative Newcomer Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve) was named best actress. Sayonara provided both the best supporting actor (Red Buttons) and supporting actress (Miyoshi Umeki...