Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ireland and his Dingle Bay romance (TIME, Aug. 18), which now smoldered as sluggishly as peat in a Kerry bog. He explained: "She turned me down because she is too much devoted to her family, her farm and County Kerry. Sometimes." he added thoughtfully, "I wish someone would shoot those cows of hers...
...credited with the kill; when the Germans came back in 1940's blitz, Sopwith's Hurricanes bagged the lion's share of the bombers. And when the Germans opened up with their V-1s, Sopwith Meteors (Britain's first jets) went up to catch and shoot them down...
...said General Naguib, "will be executed immediately and without mercy." Later, emerging from the headquarters mosque at Abbassia, Naguib faced his cheering soldiers and warned them: there are "still in the country elements who are actively working to frustrate our movement. We'll crush them-we'll shoot them if necessary...
When Rumania held her Olympic trials in the silhouette target-shooting event, crack Pistolman Panait Calcai scored twelve points over the official world record. At Helsinki, Calcai did not shoot as well, placed sixth behind Hungary's winning Karoly Takacs (TIME...
...effects of the steel boost are still to come. Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam, pooh-poohing talk that all prices will shoot up, said he had a plan whereby users would absorb the increases, thus "eliminating any need for increasing prices to consumers." Putnam soon discovered his plan was economic nonsense. Many small fabricators have such small profit margins any further absorption of costs would force them out of business. As a result, the stabilizers, who already have been flooded with requests for price increases to compensate for the steel rise, started looking for a face-saving formula which would...