Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extreme, there is the small clan that seldom makes the effort to walk through Dudley's doors. Their daytime home is the fourth level smoking room at Lamont, where they study, eat lunch, relax on the tables, and "shoot the breeze," as one of them put it. At the Center there is another group, relatively small in number, but a black smudge on Dudley's reputation. "I don't mind the guys who aren't the Ivy League type," a recent member of the Center remarked, "but those spoilers who wear dirty sweat shirts are just too much...
...could expand. The over supply of students seems endless. In the recent America's Resources of Specialized Talent, editor Dacl Wolfle estimates that in five years, the number of college graduates will increase by a fifth over the total next June. In fourteen years, the number will shoot up by an astounding 220 percent (see graph) and the rise will not be temporary...
...Riverside, Calif., arrested for robbing a Texas bank, Herbert Fox explained: "I was hoping someone would shoot me dead after I walked into that bank, but nobody did. So there was nothing left...
...psychology before earning their deputy's badge from the sheriff. Though they turn some cases (e.g., truancy and dope peddling) over to other authorities, their own quarry includes every one from the little boy who steals ice cream to the crackpot who might threaten to shoot the superintendent...
...residual sympathy which even a despicable Senator always receives when his traditional rights are violated. Tradition, for once, is working in favor of McCarthy's enemies. By holding hearings in an orderly, judicial manner the Warkins committee allowed McCarthy to cock the gun with which he seems destined to shoot himself...