Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME office. The city was in turmoil. Crowds of people were roaming aimlessly around, shouting and rioting. Messages from people whose names meant little, and cables from out-of-town stringers, were piling up. I called Free-Lance Photographer Paulo Muniz and told him to go out and "shoot whatever...
...Only When Dead." The shock that finally blew the lid off was last month's sensational attempt on the life of Rio's famed crusading Editor Carlos Lacerda (TIME Aug. 16 et seq.). The three gunmen who ambushed him only managed to shoot Lacerda in the foot; but they killed an air force major who accompanied him. In blazing editorials Lacerda charged that members of President Vargas' bodyguard had done the job at the order of Vargas' son Luthero. The air force demanded that Vargas must go. Vargas refused. But last week the army, final arbiter...
...organized confusion of trick plays and hipper-dipper, crowdpleasing football. There are no time outs except for injury, and Canadian football takes on an even more frantic pace because a team is allowed only three downs to gain ten yards. Passes come fast and frequently as quarterbacks shoot for the distance. The ball changes hands so often that kicking takes on an exaggerated importance. Downfield, a punt receiver is allowed no fair catches, gets only the dubious protection of a five-yard safety zone until the ball is caught. Long run-backs, as a result, are few and far between...
...style later perfected by Adolf Hitler, he often rolled on the floor, bit his nails, beat himself over the head, and he "lived in dread of seeing his executioners burst open the door to shoot...
Cathay Pacific officials in Hong Kong got the distress message and phoned Communist Canton, asking permission to send rescue planes. Replied Canton: "You may send a civilian plane. Don't send a military plane or we will shoot it down...