Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, two detectives escorted Teacher Margaret Jokiel to Fort Hamilton High School. She had no idea which of her 165 pupils could have wanted to shoot at her ("They all seem O.K. to me"). After the math exam, the detectives began questioning the kids. One boy could only stammer his answers. Questioned further, he admitted that he had not signed his own name to his test paper: he was taking the examination for a friend...
...planned his campaign over sodas at an ice-cream store. With four other kids (none of them Fort Hamilton students), he set out in a stolen car that was loaded with rifles and ammunition he had stolen earlier from a Coney Island shooting gallery. Everything went according to plan. A little after 9 one boy, disguising his voice to sound like a girl's, had phoned Teacher Jokiel. A few minutes later the others drove past the Jokiel house. "Shoot!" Anthony ordered them. "Show you're not chickens." When the shooting was over, the boys abandoned the stolen...
...little group sets out on a mission as weird in its way as the quest of Ahab for the white whale. Hennessey is killed in the landing. The others take part in checking a Japanese assault across a narrow stream, get drunk, shoot prisoners, and prowl among the Japanese corpses for souvenirs. They are certain that their wives back home are unfaithful to them, from their own success in seducing other men's wives, and from the number of letters from the States which arrive, telling them that all is over...
Then Mae Reuther ran for towels, knelt, tried to stop the flow of her husband's blood. People burst into the kitchen. A neighborhood doctor arrived. Reuther said wildly: "Those dirty rats had to shoot a fellow in the back." An ambulance crew pushed in, carried him off to Grace Hospital...
...real settings; 2) labor and production costs fall off sharply outside the U.S. (some German extras work for as little as two cigarettes a day); 3) in Britain and on the Continent, one of the best ways for U.S. film companies to use their blocked dollar earnings is to shoot movies there, then ship them back to the U.S. for release...