Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are 25 birds to a round. This means the competitor shoots one bird from each house (singly) at each of the eight stations; and one bird from each house (simultaneously) from stations one, two, six, and seven. That makes 24. If he breaks all 24 birds, he can shoot his last one from any station and from either house. Otherwise, he want shoot the last bird from the place where he first missed...
...lying on the street, bleeding from five bullet wounds. He died on the way to Harlan Hospital. Sizemore and Jackson were politely arrested by the state police, jailed, and released last week on $15,000 bail; though Metcalfe's wife cried that she had seen them shoot her husband, they produced witnesses who vowed they were chatting indoors when the shooting occurred, Harlan County did not think things would go hard with them. Although killings in Harlan County (pop. 75,000) average 40 a year, only four men have been executed for murder since the Civil...
...started when Cinemactor Randolph Scott and a movie troupe went to Death Valley last fall to shoot scenes for The Walking Hills, and Ranger Stan was assigned as technical adviser. Between takes Stan would haul out his guitar and twang some of the songs he has composed while out on ranger trips. Scott & Co. told him he was great, that he should sell his songs in Hollywood...
...footsloggers a hand. Wearing his finest uniform, "all togged out like a Christmas tree," the famed Rock of Chickamauga "rode along the line, bellowing in a voice audible to every man within a hundred yards that help was coming; all they had to do was keep down and shoot...
...Critic Clifton Fadiman read Novelist James Farrell's No Star Is Lost and wrote (in The New Yorker): "If his editors will only strap him down tight, shoot him full of morphine, and, while he is helpless, perform some major operations not on him but on his prose, Mr. Farrell's effectiveness will increase, and so will the number of his readers." Either the publishers let Fadiman's prayer go unheeded or Farrell refused to submit to the operation. More than ten years and twelve books later, the Farrell prose is still a better cure for insomnia...