Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy reported that tests of its inexpensive, infrared, air-to-air Sidewinder missile showed the weapon so accurate that it could shoot a flare-pot off a target-plane wing at a 7½-mile range...
...paper, in four bold downward strokes brushed in four broad segments of a bamboo stalk. He quickly dipped the brush again in the porcelain bowl of mixed water and ink, drew a long soaring line in one continuous, caressing gesture to form the narrow bamboo shoot, then rapidly brushed in the broad leaves. In two minutes, 40 seconds the painting was completed. As Huang Chun-pi turned smiling to face the crowded room, the audience burst into applause. Thus Formosa's leading landscape artist and teacher last week demonstrated his technique in the lecture room of Manhattan...
...quarters and a casual official unconcern for the soldiers' dependents back home sap morale. Most of the generals, according to Servan-Schreiber, are ribbon-happy pols who insist on military operations in keeping with their inflated status even when their sectors contain no one in particular to shoot-except innocents...
Thanks mucho for breaking up the hottest romance since Scarlet and Rhett. Me and Laundry Mark x428Fy might be honey-mooning in Palm Beach today if it wasn't for your so-called smart ideas. Go shoot yourselves in your ulcers. Respectfully yours, Dorothea Jomes...
Several Moscow sources claim that Russia will shoot a new and larger Sputnik into an orbit around the earth to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Soviet Revolution...