Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Attorney General stopped off en route to Washington, Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home warmly thanked Kennedy for his efforts but was plainly skeptical of their success. Kennedy himself was not overoptimistic. "If the conference is not successful," he said bluntly, "everybody can go back to the jungle and shoot one another again. So nothing has been lost but two weeks of shooting and killing...
Shortly after dawn, the party of twelve doughty adventurers donned life jackets, split into pairs and shoved off from shore on half a dozen rubber rafts. Mission: to shoot the rapids of the swirling Rio Grande as it passes through 1,900-ft.-deep Mariscal Canyon in Texas' Big Bend National Park. A jagged rock gashed one raft, temporarily putting it out of commission, but Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 65, and his bride of six months negotiated the hair-raising 14 miles of pounding waves, treacherous turns and large rocks without a spill. First-Timer Joan Douglas...
...Holden and Groucho Marx. Yet, the character deepens magnificently, if momentarily, when Hayden stares shakily into the camera and wimpers his resolve to "keep my bodily fluids safe from women and the Reds." Somehow there is more than foolishness here. When the general stalks awkwardly into the washroom to shoot himself, a surge of pity undercuts the laughter. Hayden has almost created a Quixote; the nature of his windmill, however, makes the character more terrifying than quaint...
Crimson Can't Shoot...
...turns into a murderous ghoul ("I think the execution of the law upon an offender is something beautiful and moving") who will not be bilked of his prey. The brother, drawing off pursuit, crashes his car and gets disfigured by fire; the prosecutor, not seeing the difference, prepares to shoot the charred victim ("He's conscious, isn't he? That's all the law requires."). Mean-while McKenna, his faith restored by his brother's intended sacrifice, races to the prison to prevent it. A pretty strong stomach is needed to sit through the "ceremony" and sermonizing that...