Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harrington, a quick, accurate set shooter, who is not afraid to shoot personally, revived the laggard Crimson attack in the first half with 12 points, eight shots of 20 feet or more, in the second quarter. He also showed fine court generalship, and finished with 15 points...
...your side. In this one, Actor Quinn plays a gunman who arrives in a one-saloon town and, in a remarkably short time, ventilates three bad men. The good citizens promptly name him sheriff, presumably on the theory that it is better to have a bad sheriff who can shoot fast than a good one who can't. It is a tribute to Quinn's inventiveness that by scratching, bumbling, slobbering and gazing dumbly out of his unshaven face, he manages to make a conventional pasteboard character seem like a real human slob...
...latest model of the satellite that the U.S. hopes to shoot into space during 1958 was shown last week by the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. It looked like the last word in gadgetry (see cut). The 20-in. magnesium sphere surrounds a canister of instruments, batteries and components of the small radio transmitter that will send information back to earth. When ready for space, the magnesium will be plated, first with gold, then with aluminum, then with a final thin layer of a silicon compound. Small amounts of gold will be used as solder to stick the magnesium...
...night long the city held its breath, while a few bursts of firing and the rumble of armor were heard. At daybreak a Hungarian sighed with relief: 'They did not shoot up the town again...
...though, the authors have provided one of the most hilarious stripe teases of recent years. The big laugh is on Colonel Wainwright Purdy III (Paul Ford), who goes by the book (though he usually reads it upside down). "They're gonna learn democracy if I've gotta shoot every one of them," the colonel roars at Captain Fisby (Glenn Ford) as he bids the captain Godspeed to the village of Tobiki on Okinawa, where Fisby is assigned as military governor...