Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passed; at exactly 6 o'clock the black limousine slipped up to the canopy again. The door of Blair House opened and Madame Chiang and Mrs. Marshall stood framed in the rectangle of light. As they started down the steps, Madame Chi ang called: "Please don't shoot the flash. I can't see the steps...
...psychological front, somebody even wanted to shoot Santa Claus. St. Nick, said Psychiatrist Ludolf N. Bollmeier, of Little Rock, Ark., was a potential source of juvenile delinquency; little white lies about Santa might lead to "serious trouble later on." His advice to old-fashioned parents: "If you must tell children about Santa Claus, tell them it's just make-believe and not a reality...
...wonder pro team of the '205, scores were sometimes as low as 17-15. He remembers when "we played on slippery floors with basketballs black as charcoal from constant usage. As the season wore on, the ball would swell as seams loosened and baskets became harder to shoot...
...Berliners said, Stalin was celebrating "politeness week," and had called all Muscovites together in Red Square to tell them about it. Suddenly, in the midst of his speech, a sneeze was heard. "Who sneezed?" asked the dictator. No one answered. "Very well," said Stalin to Secret Police Chief Beria, "shoot everyone in the first row." When that was done the dictator asked again: "Who sneezed?" No answer. "Shoot everyone in the second row." Finally, when the smell of gunpowder had drifted away a second time, a timid character rose diffidently in the third row. "C-c-c-omrade Stalin...
...Sian generals demanded that he fight Japan. When he refused to listen to "demands," they made him a prisoner. For two weeks, while the world wondered if he were dead, Chiang stonily refused to deal with his captors. "If you want to shoot me," he said, "do so at once." He raged because his government in Nanking did not blast Sian from the air. "Why don't they bomb us!" he repeated over & over...