Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After that, things went from better to better for Bébert. In the next three years he left town several times, only to return with news of even greater triumphs. At shooting matches in Amsterdam, Lisbon, London and Toronto, he said, he had won all sorts of prizes, spreading his talents to include not only rifles but pistols. The local girls flung themselves at his feet, and after a time, Roger married one of the richest of them and moved to the bigger town of Bernay. There the local shooting club welcomed him with open arms and were only...
...second half opened, Wilson ordered his team to hold the ball at mid-court, and not to shoot unless a man was open underneath. The tactic worked very well with the Crimson never losing the lead...
...answer German bullets with broadcasts asking the enemy to surrender. He proudly relates that on August 25, 1944. "I liberated Paris. I was the second person into the city, right behind General Leclere. It was a wonderful day--fighting and drinking and reveling in the streets. You would shoot at Germans and then step back into a doorway and kiss a pretty girl. Men were dying all around me covered with lip rouge all over their faces from so much kissing...
Breland's chickens also count, play poker, shoot popguns and walk on tightropes. Trained in similar mechanical ways are ducks and geese that beat on drums, hamsters that swing on trapezes, goats that dance and highjump, rabbits that kiss each other, pigs that clean up a cluttered room. There seems to be no limit to the tricks that mechanical reward devices can teach to almost any animal. "All we have to do," says Breland, "is to keep the act within the known limitations of the given species...
...headquarters. The invaders make half the family go to work on pain of killing the other half at the slightest peep. Nor can the Hilliards set any trap that they won't also tumble into themselves. Even the police, after they have broken the story, can't shoot things out without maybe killing Hilliards instead of hoodlums...