Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...murmured Moon sullenly. Then he reached under his coat, pulled out a .45-cal. automatic and fired wildly at District Attorney Myer Kornreich. Kornreich fled from the courtroom and Moon turned toward the bench. Judge Wade jumped to his feet, shielding himself with a chair. "Don't shoot," he begged. "I'm not going to sentence you." Moon fired twice. The judge staggered, clutched his chest and stumbled from the bench. "He shot me, he shot me," he gasped. In front of the empty jury box, he fell to the floor and died...
...effect of the movie is not to throw light on a public problem but to shoot adrenalin through the moviegoer's veins...
...massive steel and copper ring 700 ft. in diameter will make Long Island the world's atom-smashing capital. This week the Atomic Energy Commission announced that it will finance an "alternating gradient synchrotron" to shoot out beams of protons with energies up to 25 "bev" (25 billion electron-volts). It will be built at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, L.I. Probable cost: 20 megabucks ($20 million). Completion time: five to six years...
...good reason to believe that proton projectiles of much greater energy will be needed before the mystery of the nucleus can be cleared up. At present only the primary cosmic rays (which have to be sought by rockets or balloons) can supply such energies, but the new accelerator will shoot beams of "primaries" right into the scientists' instruments...
...that matter, Coach Howard Hobson's team had trouble with its shooting all night. It controlled both backboards for much of the game and moved the ball well, but hit on only 22 percent of 67 attempts. Coldness on the strange court was partially to blame, as were Norm Shepard's shifting defenses which were all over Yale very time it tried to shoot...