Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occupational Hazard. In Green Bay, Wis., policemen going on duty noted a new entry in the daybook: "See the bulletin board for the list of officers to shoot for target practice...
...stationed 30 German police at the Kurbel. A crowd of 300 D.P.s bore down on the theater, smashed its marquee, began a free-for-all with the police. Rubber truncheons and fire hoses did little to check the rioters, some of whom-dared the police to go ahead and shoot. A British officer was beaten amid cries of "Fascist!" Some German passers-by pounced on the Jews, but most only watched. When rocks began to fly, one elderly German woman was seen carrying stones for the Jews to throw...
Peron, no economist, looked on a possible loan with a politician's cold eye. At the Peronista rally, he melodramatically protested that "before signing [such] a document ... I would shoot myself...
...these requirements can be met, Airman Richardson did not say. The U.S. has no region like the desert of Australia where the British Commonwealth's missile center, Woomera ("Womb of Death" in the aboriginal language), has 1,200 miles of desolation to shoot over...
...Casino, out for the U.S. dollar, decided that the way to get it was in a good old American way. Last week, Louis Ceresol, boss of the money-losing Casino (TIME, May 3), and one of his croupiers visited Las Vegas and Reno, Nev. to learn how to shoot craps...