Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite some spectacular experimental failures and some anguished cries that the U.S. has lost its touch, the nation is deep into the most intensive, fast-moving and spectacularly promising scientific development program of its history. One sign was the Army's attempt to shoot the moon from Cape Canaveral last week-an attempt that was rated a failure because the Army's Pioneer III stopped rising after a breathtaking 66,654 miles out, gravitated back to burn up in earth's atmosphere (see SCIENCE). Another was the almost routine Defense Department announcement of an open-ended, long...
...rest of the evening the Crimson bombed Logue with 32 shots--against 20 shots at Pratt--but only a few of them were intelligently played. Several times a Crimson forward would break in on Logue and shoot dead on without attempting to outmaneuver...
Thus, it looks as though the Crimson will be a run-and-gun team this year. "We can shoot," Wilson emphasizes, and indeed the squad will have to rely on the marksmanship of its backcourt...
...facilities will include a $14 million passenger terminal and a $12 million hangar at New York's Idlewild Airport, new hangars in several other cities. Passengers will wait for their flights in comfortable, soundproof lounges, board the jet on a single level through telescopic covered passageways that shoot out to the plane's two doors...
...face has become a familiar sight to stewardesses, pilots and mechanics, as he samples the food, checks the service, asks questions-all the while jotting notes on pieces of scrap paper. A rough and tough man's man, he often peppers his speech with four-letter words, can shoot out orders like a gunslinger on the loose. Recently he saw an American Airlines sign on a road leading to Detroit's Metropolitan airport, snapped: "Who the hell put that up?" He had noticed that the hand of the stewardess in the sign was grotesquely large. It was quickly...