Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week after it peacefully chose a President-elect, Haiti went back to the jungle law that has ruled the island for almost a year. As losing candidate Louis Déjoie fled into hiding, vanished, vowing trouble, the ruling military junta issued a panicky decree authorizing plain citizens to shoot on sight "outlaws," i.e., political opponents of the government. The U.S. embassy warned American citizens of the growing danger and began flying families of U.S. officials to Puerto Rico. Reason: in the growing breakdown of law and order, one U.S. citizen had already been brutally killed...
...erupt into violence at the start of integrated classes. Example: he called in a Little Rock city official, displayed a schoolbook with a square section of pages cut out ("Just right for hiding a gun"), and a few water pistols ("The Negroes were gonna fill them with acid and shoot at the white kids"). The city official, far more impressed by Faubus' political power than by the "evidence," signed a statement supporting Faubus...
Between them, Thor's successful test shoot and Holaday's announcement took much of the menace out of Moscow's boast that Russia had tested a long-range ballistic missile, proving that "it is possible to direct missiles into any part of the world" (TIME, Sept. 9). But the Russian claim seemed to carry little imminent menace anyway after Secretary Wilson, at his last-week press conference, pointed out in passing just what it was the Russians said: not that they had a supply of inter-continental ballistic missiles, but that they had proved the possibility...
After a month of underground parasitic life, the witchweed makes a partial reform, like a successful mobster who buys a legitimate business and joins the church. It sends a shoot above the ground, unfolds green leaves in the sunlight, and manufactures its food by photosynthesis like any respectable plant, while still getting its water and minerals from the host's roots. Soon its little red flowers bloom and its myriad dustlike seeds poison the soil around...
...first time in five years, the U.S. Army turned out a rifle team that could shoot straighter than a squad of Marines. Scoring 1,440 points out of a possible 1,500, six Army sharpshooters took top team honors at Camp Perry, Ohio. In second, third and fourth places: the U.S. Marines...