Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin Security Police were served with tanks, armored cars, hand grenades and rifles and given orders to shoot and throw to kill if the Communists staged a demonstration. The demonstration took place but was easily broken up by the heavily armed police, with comparatively few casualties...
Telegraphic rifle matches will enable the University rifle team to shoot against 17 opponents during the coming winter and spring, according to the 1924 schedule, recently approved by the Committee on Athletics. This represents a large increase over the number of matches scheduled in past years...
...useless, that the U. S. could not keep out British goods, that they would have to put a roof over the country in order to do so, and, even then, British goods would come down the chimney. In another speech he said: "The Government (Protectionist) want us to shoot Niagara. We've asked for time to consider it, but they say: 'No, jump in; you will have plenty of time to think it over between the falls and the whirlpool.'" At Criccieth in Wales, Mr. George became bitter when he referred to Conservative posters depicting...
...observers. The virtual indictment says "that the official order went out to kill as many Koreans as possible that on Sunday, Sept. 2, 1923, 250 Koreans were bound hand and foot, in groups of five, placed in an old junk, covered with oil, burned alive"; that soldiers, ordered to shoot eight Koreans, apparently enjoyed the horror of a party of Americans, who were forced to witness the preparations for the executions, and " instead of shooting the Koreans they bayonetted them "; that hundreds of Koreans were massacred and " thousands interned with insufficient supplies...
...city of New Haven there lives a bull-dog so famous hat he is known throughout the country. This same bull-dog is blue all over and at certain seasons of the year it is reported that, like the Hound of the Baskerviles, his eyes shoot fire. When these seasonal madnesses seize him, he becomes so dangerous that nobody dares front him except a certain tiger and a man named John Harvard...