Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being readied this week). The next possible steps: U.N. discussion; economic sanctions, including the closing of the Suez and Panama canals to Soviet ships; a diplomatic break. Only after the failure of such steps was the U.S. likely to arm food trains which might or might not have to shoot their way through the Russian zone...
...slight, "acquired through reading under my school desk. Therefore my intellect resembles a Tibetan desert, with a few pagodas here & there." During World War I, he achieved a brief respectability by joining the dragoons, because he liked the uniform. But he always kept his private pledge: never to shoot the enemy...
...drop in Argentine prices. ECA officials, glad to see European countries get any kind of a break, agreed that the decrees were "a step in the right direction." But they scoffed at the Buenos Aires story that it was part of a big deal that would shoot ECA dollars into Argentina. That still waited for: 1) lower Argentine wheat and meat prices; 2) Argentine willingness to pay at least part of the estimated $475 million now owing to U.S. firms...
...eleventh, the champ popped Jersey Joe, and was hit back. Then Walcott, trying to retreat, backed into the ropes. For a second or two nothing happened; the champ's slow reflexes were manufacturing a punch. "I don't shoot so fast as I used to," he admitted later. When the punch finally came, it was a killer. Louis hit Walcott with a rain of lefts & rights and Jersey Joe pitched forward on his face. A great roar shook the stadium. A man of brave instincts, Walcott tried to climb back on to his feet. Afterward, still stunned, Jersey...
...waterfront café on dirty Niki Street. A short time later, Polk was shot point-blank from behind with a long-barreled gun, then tied up with 30 feet of rope. Probable scene of the crime: one of the countless coastwise vessels with which the harbor swarms. (To shoot Polk first and then drag his bleeding, trussed body through Salonika's streets could hardly have escaped notice; to lure him to a caique, and then shoot him in a below-deck cabin, would have been simpler and safer...