Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shoot the middleman...
Georgetown University's Dr. Edward B. Tuohy, who exhibited the hypospray at a Washington meeting last fortnight, foresaw a crop of new whodunit plots: "Why, with this gun someone could readily substitute poison for insulin, shoot his victim by pressing the hypospray gun against him in a crowd, and . . . the victim wouldn't know he'd been...
...Monday this year, most Canadians made a long weekend of it. In Ontario, crisp, clear weather favored the football games- Hamilton's Tigers lost to Toronto's Argonauts, 13 to 1. Over the northern prairies lay a heavy overcast; "fowl weather," said the gunners, setting out to shoot geese or ducks for the holiday table. At Mile 450, on the railway to Churchill, the Rev. W, E. Williamson hoped to bag a caribou, planned to share the meat with his Negro congregation in Chicago...
From 2,000 yards away, Test Pilot Keith Butler dived his Meteor fighter at Vicky's torpedolike body and rudimentary, penguinlike wings as if he wanted to shoot her down. But he only shot photographs with five camera guns. Through his radio he reported: "Rocket dropping away in a glide ... a steady glide . . . still gliding . . . it's exploded. . . ." Vicky had not exploded. Her rocket motors were starting up with a belch of black smoke...
...nunrods have served notice on the Crimson gun club that they would enjoy a skeet shoot on the morning of November 22 in the marsh which generally surrounds the south end of the New Haven railroad station after a heavy thaw...