Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grand climax to the most massive naval campaign ever, a campaign that led through Coral Sea, where the drive toward Australia was thrown back; through Midway, where the threat to Hawaii was decisively broken; through the "Marianas Turkey Shoot" (the Battle of the Philippine Sea), which broke the back of Japanese naval airpower. The relentless surge had driven the Japanese back to a final line of defense that included the home islands themselves, and hinged on the Philippines...
...Lipsett, are altogether too tough. They ignore the real Eye's tricky devices and subtle techniques-the telephone tap, the hidden recorder, the infrared camera, the fishhook microphone (which can be cast as lightly as a dry fly onto an upper-story windowsill). On TV, the Eyes shoot the joint up like maniacs, or "they all throw their revolvers away and use their fists and are too damn smart. A good Private Eye doesn't get in trouble-he doesn't get hit with surprises. If you do a decent job, you don't have violence...
After years of yearning to shoot straight in a horse opera, Singer-Actor Sammy Davis Jr. got his wish, was exuberant after filming an all-Negro oater for CBS-TV's Zane Grey Theater. Wispy (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) Sammy had been pessimistic about the prospects of ever persuading a producer to dramatize any epic pitting dark skins against red skins: "They'll never do it! But if they do, it'll be the first time they let the Indians win!" In the current saga, Davis plays a corporal in a cavalry unit assigned...
Someone cut in on him, and Dudley headed towards the punch bowl. After he gulped down his four glasses, he suddenly cheered up and went over to shoot the breeze with Ruby Newman...
...hard crossing shot just inches above the crossbar. With one minute to go, Williams had a chance to put the game away after Eph center Ben Henszey got loose for a clear shot from 10 feet away. But Henszey hesitated too long, and charging Crimson defenders forced him to shoot high and to the left...