Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kapsan, defended by North Koreans, was not given up without a fight. The Reds were dug in and well concealed on a slope overlooking a blown bridge. They expected to shoot up the approaching U.S. force when it stopped to ponder ways & means of getting across the stream. But the U.S. column was armor-tipped, and the tanks apparently panicked two of the waiting North Koreans; they broke from their foxholes and ran. That gave the Red play away. The U.S. tanks splashed across the stream while doughfeet swarmed across the bridge's torn girders. The Reds who stayed...
...Sinuiju, 24 U.S. Superforts at 25,000 ft. were jumped by 16 Russian-made jet fighters-MIG-iss. Attacking in pairs, the Red jets, traveling at better than 600 m.p.h., began their dives high on the Manchurian side of the border, swept across the Yalu just long enough to shoot up the slow-moving (200 m.p.h.) Superforts, and ended their dives back on the Manchurian side before U.S. jets could catch them. There they stayed until the coast was clear for another pass at the bombers. In the first two weeks of November, one B-29 was lost, three others...
...since the days of The Owl has such terror stalked the Yard. That was in the fall of 1948, when local inhabitants were foiled by the A.S.P.C.A. in an attempt to shoot the predator. There have been no reports of such a movement in the present crisis, but armed violence is feared if the raids continue...
...annual diplomatic shoot sponsored by France's President Vincent Auriol, U.S. Ambassador David Bruce copped the championship title by shooting 114 pheasants in three hours...
...Natives. The best piece in the book is the title essay, a slender recollection of an incident during Orwell's days as a British constable in Burma. Orwell had been called out to shoot a tame elephant gone rogue. He did not really want to shoot the beast, but behind him stood a crowd of Burmans ready to jeer if the white man faltered. Since "a sahib has got to act like a sahib," Orwell pumped his bullets in the animal's hide, reflecting "that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys...