Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been clapped in jail-at least 10.000, according to estimates of the well-informed West German Socialists. The commissars turned ferociously on the Volkspolizei, the big (145,000) German Red army disguised as a police force, to purge it of hundreds who had themselves proved rebellious, or reluctant to shoot down fellow Germans on the streets...
Symington: A recent study that I saw showed that under ideal conditions, 20% of their attacking bombers could be shot down by our present defenses. Under conditions not considered ideal, as, for example, night or low-level attack, we would shoot down about .01% of what they sent over...
Thereupon Milton and his optician brother Julian found a veteran camera technician named Friend Baker, who jiffy-built a stereo-camera by lashing together two standard 35-mm. Mitchell cameras geared to shoot "in sync." Early in 1951 Natural Vision, as the Gunzburgs called their company, began to peddle its process to the big studios. Fox, Columbia and Paramount said no; Metro took an option and let it drop...
...screen talent. Undisturbed by some of the criticisms leveled against the picture-the Roman Catholic Church in Italy condemned it, and the Communists distributed handbills attacking it-Malaparte is now going ahead with his next film. It will be a movie version of Robinson Crusoe, which he plans to shoot this fall on the Juan Fernandez Islands, 400 miles off the coast of Chile, the scene of the actual story that inspired Defoe. As with Strange Deception, he sees the theme of his next picture as an expression of "how people . . . can reconstruct, outside of existing institutions and helped only...
With guns drawn the officers followed him out of the building, ordering him to halt or they would shoot...