Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...others. Madrid ordered World War II Heinkels and Messerschmitts south from the mainland to bomb and strafe along the ill-defined frontier. Istiqlal partisans charged that the Spanish were striking roads and villages on the Moroccan side. In Rabat young (28) Crown Prince Moulay Hassan ordered Moroccan troops to shoot back at any plane attacking Moroccan territory, and indicated that Morocco would demand "our door to the Sahara"-that part of the old protectorate south of Ifni still administered by the Spanish as "Southern Morocco...
Batista is angry as well as sad. Though the army and most of organized labor are still his, he cannot put down the revolt, has managed only to spur it with clumsy counterterrorism. Risking shoot-on-sight orders, Castro partisans are putting the torch to the budding sugar-cane crop on which the Cuban economy depends. The army said it shot four rebels in the cane fields last week. "Criminals!" shouts Batista now. "Communists...
...tricks on the radar. One trick is to analyze its waves and then broadcast stronger waves that are just like them. If these are properly timed, the radar that picks them up will see a target at the wrong distance, and it may send a flight of interceptors to shoot down a bomber that is not there...
...varsity will shoot at many fine goalies before the year is out, and not the least of these will be Harry Levin, the Terriers' net-tender. B.U. coach Harry Cleverly considers Levin a "great goalie" and he has already turned into fine performances against both Northeastern and Brown. While the Terrier's starting lineup is still not definite, Tony Cicoria and Bub Dubis will probably start at defense, while Larry Creighton, Sarge Kimlin, and Jack Karruthers will make up the first line. Levin will almost certainly start in goal...
Escape Velocity. When the Aerobee's nose exploded 55 miles up, the focused force of the shaped charges made three jets of aluminum pellets shoot into the near-vacuum like shot from three shotguns. The Air Force announcement is none too clear about what happened, but Maurice Dubin, physicist in charge of the project, thinks that some of the pellets reached the speed of 40,000 m.p.h. A photograph taken of the explosion showed meteorlike trails whose speed could be measured by a fast-moving shutter on the camera...