Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brawler's shoulder-swinging walk. He affects dark glasses, wears a diamond ring as big as a dime on one rocklike fist, and on the flat Texas highways drives his royal blue Cadillac at 100 m.p.h., often with a whiskey bottle at his side. He likes to shoot craps at $1,000 a throw, and has a longshoreman's uninhibited propensity for barroom fights...
Halfway across the Pacific, Rear Admiral Walter F. Boone eased the big aircraft carrier Boxer into Pearl Harbor, on his way to strengthen the Navy's Seventh Fleet in the Philippines. "I have no 'shoot' orders," he said briskly, "but we are fully prepared for any eventuality and have a full allowance of ammunition . . . The Navy's mobile air power in the Western Pacific is one of the principal instruments of U.S. diplomacy...
...Court Judge Paul Nourse, a Los Angeles Herald & Express reporter telephoned urgently for help last week. "Aggie," he pleaded with City Editor Agness Underwood, "we're in a fix. Judge Nourse has announced that there'll be no pictures taken in court . . . What are our orders: to shoot or not to shoot?" Snapped Aggie: "My instinct is to shoot." Managing Editor Jack Campbell agreed, so long as the pictures were taken when court was not in session. So Aggie rushed down to the courtroom a rugged reinforcement: veteran Hearstling Photographer Perry Fowler, 41, who parachuted into Yugoslavia...
Then he defies his father, Colonel Norwood, by entering the big house by the front door. When his outraged father (Baritone Paul Elmer) threatens him with a gun, Bert strangles the old sinner before he can fire a shot. After that, the only thing left for Bert is to shoot himself before the libretto lynching party catches up with...
...Madison Square Garden last week the St. John's basketball team did everything wrong but shoot at its own basket. For a topflight team, their ball handling was wretched, their close-in shooting slovenly. With 45 seconds to play and St. John's three points behind, all that Utah had to do to score an upset victory was to freeze the ball until time ran out. Then prosperity went to Utah's head...