Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Members of the international Communist movement will not hesitate to shoot any who stand in their way ... It is now clear that the military power of these Communists is organized, very great and growing rapidly." If the U.S. is to survive, said Symington, then the President's emergency recommendations (see below) represent the minimum requirements...
...liner's departure for a 30-day pleasure cruise of the Mediterranean. When the convoy weighed anchor in Japan, wives & children waved goodbye from the shore and a brass band cheerily blared Anchors' Aweigh. On the fantail of the fleet's flagship, an impromptu clay pigeon shoot was organized...
...time they arrived, however, the Communists were already putting their dreaded tanks across the river on rafts and pontoon bridges. Again the South Koreans, now short of weapons of any sort, wavered and broke, and the Communists pushed on. Meanwhile, U.S. jets and F82 Twin Mustangs were beginning to shoot down Yaks and knock out some of the enemy armor. The Yaks retaliated by destructive sneak attacks on Suwon's airstrip...
...human brain. Earlier computers stored their recollections (numbers that they might need later) on punched cards, tapes or magnetized surfaces. It took a considerable time to recall them and put them to use. SEAC does its remembering with long tubes filled with mercury. Sound waves coded to represent numbers shoot through the tubes. When they reach the far end, electric repeaters bat them back again. The numbers echo back & forth in the mercury until they are needed in the machine's computations. Then they can be "brought to mind" in 168 millionths of a second...
...people's trust. It is a matter of convincing them that the army can protect them. "Then the people talk to us," the captain says. "They tell us their troubles. If we do not have the aid of the people, we do not know which ones to shoot...