Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowded start kept both milers from breaking the pack to shoot for the four minute mark. They ran even going into the last quarter when Baker picked up the pace and out-kicked Shaw in the final 220 for the victory...
During one particularly effusive tribute a voice--perhaps over-enthusiastic, perhaps cynical, but undoubtedly loud--shouted "Shoot (push) him for governor" from the back of the room...
...more than willing to serve, although he does have some reservations about his usefulness. "If the Army wants to give me a gun, they must want to get rid of some of our own generals," he said. "I can just see myself sitting in a trench. I'll just shoot whenever I hear anything move. I can hear the other soldiers saying, 'Private Krents, you just shot another officer...
When questioned about his possible stranglehold over the surrounding competition, Sack quickly shrugs it off. "Getting movies is like being in Las Vegas--you shoot craps. Often I have to decide whether or not to buy a film I haven't even seen. A recent one cost me a $300,000 advance. Now anyone who wanted to put up $300,000 could have had that picture." He ignores the fact that his theatres are practically the only Boston houses with the past record and potential capacity to justify such an outlay...
...talking heads," regardless of their message, can be deadly, and thus, as one newsman admits, "we're still basically in show business." That fact has led some newsmen to overstep their charter. Recently, Los Angeles' KNBC sent a film team to Claremont Men's College to shoot a debate on Viet Nam, and caused a ruckus when the students' spotted the newsmen unpacking half a dozen posters with pro and con war slogans. Later, a spokesman for KNBC admitted that the posters were intended as "colorful additions to the set." On other occasions, a TV cameraman...