Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grimmest picture sequences of 1955 showed a French gendarme shooting an unarmed Moslem to death during a period of rioting in Algeria (see cut). Filmed and widely shown by Fox Movie-tonews, the photos were also published in LIFE. Last week, in the heated French election campaign, the accusation was made that the cameraman had bribed the policeman to shoot down the Algerian to provide some exciting footage...
...will launch its space satellite. The Russians will shoot it down, then explain, "It looked just like a trial balloon" and pay half the cost. Senator East land will demand that the U.S. secede from the U.N." and lynch them Ruskies." Russia, in the meantime, will announce the installation of the "Peasant Boys' Administration; what is good for General Zhukov is good for the Soviet Union." Guatemala will claim...
Russell-Made Rule. Last year he led the Dons to the N.C.A.A. title (TIME, Feb. 14). Shy and self-effacing anywhere but on a basketball court, Bill Russell played with the drive and desire of a champion. As Woolpert wanted, he specialized in defense: "If they can't shoot, they can't score," the coach told...
When word spread that President Eisenhower would like to "go out and shoot some crows" during his Gettysburg sojourn, the President got a respectful but disapproving letter from the "Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Old Crows." Copies also reached news-hungry wire-service correspondents at Gettysburg, and soon the deadpan stories were going out on U.P. and I.N.S. wires. Last week- as once before (TIME, Sept. 7, 1953)-the crows were coming home to roost: into the office of the society (which consists of a pressagent for National Distillers' Old Crow whisky) flew more than 500 clippings...
...with 10-an-hour labor for less than half as much as it would cost to produce in the U.S. Marx bargained so closely with the crafty Japanese toymakers that Tokyo newspapers accused him of trying to ruin the industry. Marx was unabashed. "When in Rome," he shrugged, "shoot Roman candles...