Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian legation to cheer the Soviet.Union, but the cops also broke that up. Workers who tried to rush a police station in the Canal Zone were shooed away. The Egyptian army was carefully kept out of contact with the British Suez forces, which had shown no reluctance to shoot when first they met, last fortnight...
...Would you," asked Stalin, "also forbid the existence of watchmakers and furniture factories for making parts of shells? The Germans produced toy rifles which were used for teaching hundreds of thousands of men how to shoot . . . There was control after the last war, but it failed...
...what has happened to the famed nth Marine Artillery Regiment? We have four of the shootingest artillery battalions in Korea. Not only can we shoot, but we can hit what we see. The 3rd Battalion has expended over 300,000 rounds of 105-mm. ammo since [it] landed at Inchon on the 23rd of September...
...ceilinged Republican conference room in the Senate Office Building, he faced 230 reporters and 50 photographers-the largest press conference ever held on Capitol Hill. His blue tie slightly askew, the Ohio Senator made his way slowly from the door to a microphone-laden table, stopping to let photographers shoot and chuckling at their antics. "All right, let's get started," he said.. Then he made the announcement everybody expected: he will seek the Republican nomination for President...
Yale's birthday party, said President A. Whitney Griswold, was nothing more or less than a big family reunion . . . "The graduates of the English universities who founded Harvard, and the graduates of Harvard who founded Yale, brought to us a living shoot from the tree of learning whose roots reach down through western culture to ancient Greece . . . The founders' respect for learning speaks for itself: the scholar rubs elbows with the moralist. Both share the natural piety, the simple moral earnestness that for all our shortcomings has pervaded our culture and extended the aims of American higher...