Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prisoners, a sulky shaven-headed youth obviously not out of his teens. "This kid's a speed boy," the sergeant said to a U.S. correspondent. "We flush these three out of a paddy field, and this one tries to cut out. I don't want to shoot him, because we want to question him. So I just run him down. He was talking English like a professor from Yale College when we caught him," said the sergeant. "Come on, speed boy, talk English to the man." The young soldier glared at the sergeant, but did not answer...
...attack came at dawn. I had just time to empty four clips of my rifle before they had overrun us. My rifle was jammed and wouldn't shoot. I picked up another and it was no good. I yelled to the lieutenant and he tossed me a bayonet. The first enemy wave was past. I figured I had to die, so I dug out a can of fruit cocktail and ate it. Then the lieutenant asked: 'Are you willing to die? If you are, I will call for mortar fire.' I could see the next wave coming...
...medieval monopoly about the keeping of bitches on Sark." He splashed Rand's story on his front page and awaited developments. They were not long in coming. Sark's constables showed up at Rand's house, told him curtly to get Jip off the island or shoot her within four days. Rand made arrangements to send his pet to Guernsey, but at the last moment he changed his mind. "We were together in the air raids," he stammered. "She stuck to us and we'll stick...
...ambulances moving to the front are forced to paint over their white crosses and all medics? are now armed. Said one ambulance driver: "I drove wounded in the fighting from the English Channel to Germany, but this is the first war I had to shoot my way through to get them." Ambulances in Korea today have the driver flanked by a rifleman on each fender...
This lethal pipe organ shoots fifteen 4.5-inch rockets at once (some models shoot 24 or more), but is not very accurate; it is best used to lay pre-attack barrages on the enemy's rear areas, is sometimes mounted on tanks...