Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Florida correspondent, Shelton was well-primed to provide background and play-by-play action that ended last week with the glow of a new star in the skies. While Shelton covered the Cape launching of Explorer, Washington Correspondents Ed Rees and Sherwin Badger sweated out the rocket shoot with Pentagon brass, and Atlanta Correspondent Lee Griggs went to the Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., to report Huntsville's big stake in the firing. For a narrative account of the history-making night, see the first four pages of NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Came Science. From that meeting came a joint Army-Navy undertaking named Project Orbiter. The Navy was to develop the satellite itself; the Army was to build the vehicle, using Redstone as its first stage. Target dates: launching sites to be established by April 1956, and the actual satellite shoot to be made in the summer or fall...
...Promising to "give this country peace if I have to shoot every other man in Nicaragua to do it," Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza took command of the Nicaraguan National Guard when the U.S. Marines pulled out in 1933, parlayed his talents into dictatorship, a string of coffee plantations and cattle ranches into a $60 million fortune, was killed, at 60, by an assassin in September...
...creates a second magnetic field which keeps the pinch away from the walls for as long as five one-thousandths of a second. The deuterium in it is heated to 5,000,000° C. (one-third of the temperature at the center of the sun), and free neutrons shoot out of the torus...
...husband frequently lined up beer cans and glasses of beer in the living room, shot them up for target practice, once hung a picture of a woman on the wall and fired away with his rifle, muttering between each shot: "This is how I'm going to shoot...