Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasoned answer. Mine follows...It is not a question of this or that Korean town...The real issues are whether the power of Western civilization as God has permitted it to flower in our own beloved lands shall defy and defeat Communism; whether the rule of men who shoot their prisoners, enslave their citizens and deride the dignity of man shall displace the rule of those to whom the individual and his rights are sacred...
Would either accomplish the job that had to be done: drive the shark back to deep water, or shoot it? Douglas was convinced that neither could. The end of Gibraltarism would be the feast of the shark on all Asia and Europe, he argued. U.S. forces, he said, are the key to West Europe's resistance. "If we refuse [to help], they . . . may indeed throw in the sponge...
When Bradley's basketball team bobbed up in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden for a game with St. John's (of Brooklyn) last week, the boys from Peoria were rated the No. 1 team in the U.S. Bradley's shoot-and-run tactics, sparked by little (5 ft. 8 in., 170 Ibs.) Gene Melchiorre, had frazzled 15 straight opponents by outrunning and outscoring them. St. John's Coach Frank McGuire told his Redmen what he wanted them to do about all this: shoot and run faster than No. 1 Bradley, and put up a better...
...Frenchie" has most of the makings of an excellent shoot-'em-up Western: a good cast (Joel McCrea, Shelley Winters, Paul Kelly, Elsa Lancaster), fine Technicolor photography, and appropriate background music which is played whenever somebody rides in or out of town. But the picture appears to move slowly since there are no real chases and only one gun duel...
This lack of action is due to hero-sheriff Tom Banning (Joel McCrea), who likes to talk first and shoot afterwards. Sheriff Tom is a pretty cagey fellow and things rarely get to the shooting stage. Banning further slows the story by explaining every important decision with a homey parable...