Word: shooter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor Fred R. Zimmerman, 73, the state's ten-term Republican secretary of state, decided not to attend the Milwaukee Young Republican dinner when he heard McCarthy would be the speaker. Said he: "I just don't like the guy. If I thought he was a square shooter, I'd think he was a Republican, and I don't think he is a Republican." ¶ Minnesota Republican National Committeeman George F. Etzell declared he would oppose any move to invite McCarthy to campaign in the state. "I'm simply looking at this from the viewpoint...
...onslaught. I knew what was coming because I had been through this before. I stuck out a leg to bar the door and nearly lost the leg as a tough-looking hombre about five years old opened the door with a lunge and stood panting, his six-shooter drawn for battle. I jerked my hand off the mouthpiece, asked the president another question, then hissed at the cowboy to get out. He eyed me coldly, and without a word raised his pistol and shot me right between the eyes. Then he crawled under the bed as the vigilantes came whooping...
...trigger. Older brother Lennie falls down groaning, with a sinister smear of ketchup spreading on his chest. The others shout, "He's dead! You killed your brother, Joey!" Terrified. Joey runs home. No mother. Desperate, he grabs the $6 she left for them, and, hugging his trusty six-shooter, takes it on a lonesome lam that leads him to the end of the subway line that goes to Coney Island...
...Cott bomb. Biggest upheaval comes on Sunday when a long parade of shows-long on drama, short on comedy-presents big stars, e.g., Helen Hayes, Fredric March, Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer rotating on hosting NBC Star Playhouse, Sir Laurence Olivier in The Royal Theater, Jimmy Stewart in Six Shooter, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in The Marriage. The most original...
...base. Sometimes Americans lose their tempers; whether they are right or wrong in any particular ruckus, they are usually shipped home. One American was shot and wounded by a Saudi with the victim's own gun. The American was reprimanded for having a weapon, and deported; the shooter was admonished and set free...