Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old boys see adults repairing pistols in open-air markets, hour after hour of gunplay on TV and in the movies, how can people such as those in Woodward, Okla. be "astonished" and ask each other "how such a thing could happen" when the boys steal guns and shoot people...
...Havana streets, the Cabinet decreed all public-service employees subject to military draft. That meant that if the rebels again threatened a general strike, President Batista could order some 250,000 workers in transport, communications, power, banks, hotels, government offices to stay on the job and, if need be, shoot them for desertion. Another decree stiffened penalties for censorship violations; for newsmen, foreign as well as Cuban, up to one year's imprisonment; for newspapers and TV stations, heavy fines and suspension for up to one year. For the first time since World War II, "ham" radio operators...
With the upper hand, Batista drove boldly around the city while his cops proceeded to make their supremacy complete. When a patrol car radioed that it had clashed with rebels and had "a dead man and a prisoner," the dispatcher ordered: "Shoot him." At midafternoon, cops burst into a boardinghouse, grabbed three young men who were leaders of Cuba's lay Catholic Action movement, which sympathizes with Castro. Two hours later their stripped, tortured and bullet-torn bodies were turned over to relatives. Total dead...
Newsmen who try to overcome the judiciary's traditional ban on photographing trial action risk a charge of contempt of court. Last week, after an Omaha court let press and TV photographers shoot at will, the familiar legal weapon was turned against the judge himself...
...start of a heavily publicized murder trial in February, Judge James T. English, 64, warned photographers that they could take courtroom shots only during recesses and could not shoot the defendant even then. But as it turned out, Judge English did not object when the Omaha World-Herald quietly photographed Defendant George D. Jones in the courtroom during recesses, or when TV cameras caught him from the corridor while the trial was actually in session. Nor did Judge English complain when TV and World-Herald cameramen whirled and clicked while the jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder...