Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glued to the roof of the plane," said Polyak later. At last the lieutenant managed to wrest the gun from the Red agent and fire a shot into the air. Capitulating immediately, and terrified of official vengeance if he ever got back to Hungary, the agent begged Polyak to shoot him then and there. Polyak refused. Instead, dripping with gore and minus three front teeth, he went forward to the copilot's seat and, holding the agent's gun at the pilot's temple, took charge of the plane. Somewhere in the skirmish he had lost...
Agent Provocateur. In Crescent Beach, S.C., after three vacationers called police to report a bee swarm blocking the way into their house, Police Chief Howard Bailey replied: "I can't beat a bee with a blackjack, I can't shoot them and I can't arrest them. Tell you what. If you'll get 'em drunk, I'll come down and see what...
...concubines) bodily out of their palace. Displaying their first real spirit in years, the evacuated princes pitched tents on the roadside and settled in for a long stay. "All in all," said one of them, "it's not much worse than being in the jungles on a tiger shoot...
...political rallies are damaging not only to himself but to the New Turkey he is building, was the argument that Menderes used last week to ban them. A clause in his bill provides that in the case of people attempting to hold unauthorized meetings, the police or military should shoot three times in the air, and if the meeting does not then disperse, they may fire into the crowd. When Fevzi Karaosmanoglu, leader of the newly created Freedom Party, vigorously protested that this provision was the work of a dictator, he was suspended for using the awful word...
...Carola Mandel, Cuba-born beauty and wife of a Chicago department-store executive, broke 300 straight targets to beat three other top women and 14 men in the annual Rebel Open Skeet Shoot all-gauge championship at Jackson, Miss., went on to establish a new women's world record of 387 birds...