Word: shooted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentleman from Texas," he cried and pretended to throw a lariat, to shoot-from-the-hip. He took off the hat, saying: "A little heavy for the climate." He sat down, stretched, yawned, listened to the reading of the Democratic platform. Someone on the convention dais could be heard asking for a glass
Recently ten small tots ran prattling to parents, begged permission to go into the woods with "Uncle José" who had promised to shoot pigeons and then tell stories. "You may go with José," smiled many a parent, adding piously, "May the Blessed Virgin go with...
...Shame! Shame on Uncle José!" teased the tots. Slowly the marksman grew livid, lowered his rifle until it pointed to the nearest of his teasers, squeezed trigger, put bullet into brain. As the other children scattered, screaming, poor José knew no better than to chase and shoot them down one by one. With his last shot he wounded a peasant who had rushed up brandishing an axe. As the man, for whom he had often worked for nothing, fell, Poor José seized his axe and split his head in twain...
...rival faction. . . . That night, on the South Side, one James Reggi was murdered in an alley by revolver bullets. He had Oliveri's telephone number in his pocket. . . . Chicago's police admit that when "King" Capone leaves his underworld, jealous barons are likely to plot and shoot ambitiously...
...from a government bench leaped Deputy Punica Ratchitch, a nobody. Whipping out an automatic pistol, he leveled the blue-steel barrel at the leader of the opposition. "I'm going to shoot Raditch," he cried. "I'll shoot anyone who tries to stop me!" Instantly four ranking officials of the Croat Peasant Party rushed to fling themselves between the pistol and their leader. The secretary of the party stopped the assassin's first bullet. The vice president of the party, a popular Croatian author, took the second. The third and fourth were stopped with no less honor...