Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They hauled the commander of an artillery group out of bed, told him to gather a score of trustworthy men and arrest Lacerda at 6:15 a.m. as he began an official visit to a state hospital near Rio. If Lacerda resisted, shoot to kill-without fear of consequences. If taken alive, Lacerda supposedly was to be bundled aboard a plane at Rio's International Galeao Airport and flown to a secret destination. The artillery officer refused, saying that he needed a written order from his commander. Pinheiro and Mafra next went to the commander of a paratroop regiment...
...violators have made the pigeon rara avis there. Authorities in Buffalo are also making a fight to the finish. They employ five fulltime exterminators, who trap pigeons wherever they can and unobtrusively kill them by wringing their necks. The exterminators are also crack marksmen and shoot pigeons downtown in the early morning...
...that if you can make movies on a cheaper budget, then they should be shown at cheaper prices. I don't mind paying extra to see Ben-Hur or Cleopatra because these are long epics that cost extra to make. But why pay extra to see Shoot the Piano Player or a movie about a kid's life in the London slums...
...President's two-year-old decision to shoot for the moon marked a mile stone on the U.S. road into space. "That decision," says a high-ranking Government scientist, "was part of the rebuilding of our national posture. If we had to make it again, most of us would do it." But the President's offer to the Russians changed that posture and canceled all previous assumptions. Now the whole program is up for scrutiny...
...happy recipients of this adulation were members of the Harvard Woodwind Quintet, an off-shoot of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. On a grant from the American Embassy in Mexico City they gave 16 concerts during 20 days in Mexico last month...