Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said: "It would be better to shoot those two, hold these five, let the rest...
Furious as he was with Japanese duplicity, Halsey was quite prepared to adopt Pearl Harbor tactics himself. Even before he knew of the Japanese attack, he had given orders to "sink any shipping sighted, shoot down any plane encountered." Protested his operations officer: "Goddammit, Admiral, you can't start a private war of your own! Who's going to take the responsibility?" Said Halsey: "I'll take it! If anything gets in my way, we'll shoot first and argue afterwards...
Except for matches with schools in the Boston area, competitors shoot on their own courses and later the results are tabulated by mail...
...know who the men were, and Gina, without hesitation, told him that they were U.S. flyers. The Fascist turned around, started back down the stairs, and announced that he was going to turn them in. "Go ahead," said Gina. "But you will have a dead fiancee. . . . They will shoot all of us." The boy friend changed his mind...
...trip to New York City for his first inauguration; John Quincy Adams bathing naked in the Potomac ; Wilson nibbling crackers while pecking out his war message to Congress; Jackson, when asked if he had any regrets in his life, admitting that he had two: "He had been unable to shoot Henry Clay, or to hang John C. Calhoun...