Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film. He asked a couple of observers to stand as silhouettes at the border of his prospective picture. "That'll make it look as though the picture was hard to get," he said with some satisfaction. "It's always better if it looks as though you had to shoot over the heads of people or through people...
...second Army shoot at the moon and beyond, a feat the Soviets claim they accomplished with their 1 1/2 ton Mechta dream probe...
...there is any shooting, he said, it will be "to stop us from doing our duty. We are not saying that we are going to shoot our way into Berlin. We say we are just going to go and continue carrying out our responsibilities to those people and the ones that we agreed to undertake way back in 1945. So that if we are stopped, it will be somebody else using force...
...this news, the villagers became friendly. One man offered his house so the captives could dry their clothes. Others shook their hands and apologized. Explained one, magnanimously: "We do not shoot men of God. no matter of what religion-not even if they are from Kobeyat.'' The two Maronites were fed and sent on to Kobeyat with a letter expressing all Jaafra's regret at the error of its overzealous sons, but also going on to say that nothing was changed regarding the feud between the two villages...
...tried grunt-and-groan for a while before he graduated to football coaching, "but I know there have been few legitimate professional matches since Theseus laid down the wrestling rules in 900 B.C. I even have my doubts about whether that historic match between Ulysses and Ajax was a shoot. I still don't think you can get a better night's entertainment than you will by seeing your favorite hero tangle with a villain. This plot has had the longest run in show business, so it must have something...