Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be the first practical rain-making test in the East. Howell plans to run it whenever conditions are favorable next week. He will shoot fine particles of silver iodide at cold-water clouds to cause condensation and precipitation...
Producer Nunnally Johnson (Three Came Home) was having a minor disagreement with his boss, 20th Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck, who thinks that Johnson ought to go to Africa to shoot a picture about Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Visiting Manhattan, Johnson suggested that the picture could be made just as well in the U.S. Said he: "Patronize your neighborhood deserts...
...serializing. When Scribner published For Whom the Bell Tolls, the word obscenity was substituted for each bad Hemingway word-e.g., the memorable line, "I obscenity in the milk of your fathers." Cosmopolitan decided to use the word deletion in parentheses. Sample edited Hemingway line: "Every time you shoot now can be the last shot and no stupid (deletion) should be allowed to ruin...
...talked volubly and on the party line when asked his opinions on foreign affairs. Of China: "The people have taken over as they did here in 1776-it's a people's revolution." On Britain: "If you dare to strike, troops come in and shoot you down." Of the occupation of Poland: "The country had collapsed and Russia figured she was going to be invaded." But he seldom missed a chance to throw in a scornful gibe: "These days, people trying to find out where you stand on the U.S. don't ask you that, but where...
...presenting the trophies, Clarence S. Beesemyer, vice president of California's General Petroleum Co., the contest's sponsor, said: "These mileages give the general public something to shoot at. They prove just what a properly driven and properly maintained car will do." But few U.S. drivers would sandpaper their feet for such mileage...