Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salvo of the war for the green 35th Division. Promptly a German battery answered back. A Battery D sergeant yelled: "They got us bracketed. Every man for himself." Panic seized the Battery. Over the din came the voice of Battery D's prissy captain: "I'm gonna shoot the first son-of-a-bitch who leaves his gun." Battery D's artillerymen stuck to their guns...
...given night, Pivotman Macauley was good for at least 18 points a game. But because L.I.U. double-teamed him (he had two men guarding him), he didn't bother to shoot much. He just kept feeding the ball to the open man. The Billikens led at half time 38-20, and the crowd was disappointed when they didn't pour it on in the second half. But the Billikens were content just to win (58-47). Macauley had scored only 10 points, but he had set up most of the rest...
...freshmen pulled together in the third period and completely outplayed the tired Blue. Bill Timpson sank number four at 1:59 and Andover's Thompson managed to shoot in a second Blue puck at 4:40. Then the Crimson scored two more to finish Andover...
Forthwith, Britain struck back. It instructed British aircraft to shoot down any Israeli planes encountered over Egyptian territory; it dispatched British reinforcements to Transjordan to protect Aquaba, Transjordan's port on the Red Sea and an important link in British communications to Bagdad...
...piece to one of her former lovers, the Duke of Braganza, and suggested that he hang it over his bed. Then (as Lonyay reconstructs the police and medical evidence) Rudolph blew the top of her head off with his revolver and, after some ten hours, summoned the courage to shoot himself...