Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shoot If Necessary. Despite many injured, no word of the rioting appeared in the Madrid press. The university was closed down, but next day Falangists and anti-Falangists clashed again. This time the Falangists pulled their pistols, but in the confused fighting managed only to wound one of their own sympathizers. At this point Franco stepped in, ordered all Falangists confined to barracks, and sent 1,400 heavily armed plainclothesmen into the streets with orders to break up disturbances by "shooting, if necessary...
...extraordinary speed and combat capabilities that U.S. planemakers have built into the new century fighters were well summed up by Lockheed's Chief Engineer C. L. Johnson: "Give us a 16-in. shell up there, and we'll outrace it-or shoot it down. Not at all impossible. After all, the velocity of this shell at 35,000 ft. is 300 ft. per second. We can sure go that fast...
...studio he founded (with veteran Moviemaker Joseph M. Schenck) in 1933, stirred memories of his role in helping to guide Hollywood through adolescence. In the '20s at Warner Bros., Zanuck made so much money for the studio with his silent Rin-Tin-Tin series that Warner decided to shoot a barrel of profits on a daring experiment: The Jazz Singer (produced by Zanuck), which starred Al Jolson and ended silent films with a spoken line ("You ain't heard nothing yet, folks!"). Always keen to sense a popular trend, Zanuck took advantage of the movies' gangster cycle...
...Russian seemingly maneuver his plane into the Hungarian and, seconds before the crash, hit the air in his ejection seat. Taxed with this evidence, Konoklov admitted, just before stepping back into Hungary, that he and his wing man had been chasing two escaping Hungarian pilots and, failing to shoot one down, had rammed it. The second Hungarian plane apparently got away, but where it landed (whether in West Germany or Yugoslavia) was one of the week's best-kept secrets...
Real-Estate Promoter William Zeckendorf, whose plans shoot out as fast and colorfully as flaming gobbets from a Roman candle, moved into Dallas last week and popped an idea that had even Texans agape. He announced that his Manhattan realty firm of Webb & Knapp and a group of well-heeled oilmen are in the process of acquiring 5,000 acres of choice land between Dallas and Fort Worth for $10 million. Their plan: to turn the land into the world's biggest "industrial park," a roaring "prairie boom town" where 100,000 people would work in a $300 million...