Word: shooted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London season closed, last week, as Royalty and many another left for Scotland to shoot tens of thousands of grouse...
...said, however, that next time he would use flies. The President's prize catch weighed one and seven-eighths pounds, was considered large for Squaw Creek. But it was recalled that President Roosevelt, fishing in another Black Hills stream, had caught an eight-pounder, established a mark to shoot...
...Chicago, one Burton Parquette, 23, arrested last week, pleaded with policemen: "Let me run. If you shoot me, all well and good. If I get away, that's my good luck. I can't stand being locked up." They jailed him. Later they found him writhing. He had pulverized the lenses of his eyeglasses and swallowed the grit. He was expected...
...carried a revolver charged with poisoned dumdum bullets and also a hand grenade which I had saved from the War. I intended either to shoot Mussolini or to bomb him, whichever seemed surest of success. ... I told none of my friends. I had no accomplices. I just threw the bomb. I knew that if it killed Mussolini I should be killed. ... I am sorry the bomb only wounded a lot of men in the street. . . . My temperament has always been profoundly misogynistic [woman-hating...
...Eagle, like the Confederate cruisers during the Civil War, carried the flag of a beleagured nation around the seas; like them, she destroyed enemy commerce while guarding the safety of each crew. When she was wrecked at last upon a South Sea island her commander surrendered rainer than shoot his way to safety through a civilian population...