Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time for a comfortable law practice in Paris, specializing in bankruptcy cases, and became known as the "amiable liquidator." He believes that the French political system is more to blame than the men who try to run it, and once remarked: "It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune." Socialist Vincent Auriol, the outgoing President, had hardly been better known when he was elected seven years ago, but he has been, by common consent, an excellent President...
...Morlion first visited the U.S. in 1941, he did not think he would like it one bit. But to his own surprise, burly (6 ft. 11n., 240 Ibs.) Father Morlion, who had escaped from Belgium when the Germans took over, found himself enchanted. He began using such phrases as "shoot the works," learned to count his calories, and started studying U.S. political history. Gradually, he came to the conclusion that whereas "democracy has no philosophy in Europe, Americans have more philosophy than they know. We must do on a world basis what the founding fathers...
...these, Father Morlion thinks, the university will be influencing the most active managers and molders of the future. As undergraduates, students move on from philosophy to economics, labor, and political science, can later specialize in their chosen careers. Their work is anything but orthodox: cinema students actually help shoot Italian films; journalists work as legmen for Rome reporters...
Hands Tied. Shocked by Lyttelton's disclosure that in the last eleven months 2,821 Mau Mau-and Mau Mau "suspects"-have been killed and only 980 captured, the Socialists last week condemned Whitehall's "Shoot to kill" order against the terrorists. Ex-Grenadier Guardsman Lyttelton repulsed them in character: "I am not yet prepared . . . to allow British soldiers in these forest areas to . . . fight entirely with their hands tied behind their backs...
...pierced like a Bedouin's when she was talking and crinkled when she smiled. She was also the big girl on campus at the American University of Beirut, where she studied political science and practiced it by leading demonstrations for women's rights, daring hapless cops to shoot her down...