Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...move in and run agin you." Later, at a mass meeting, Lomax said that CORE would bring in "some of the biggest religious names in the world, the same people who went to Selma." He added: "Let them knock some priests and nuns down for a change, let them shoot up on some Jewish rabbis. We're gonna walk through Bogalusa like John walked through Jerusalem...
...better to shoot Viet Cong with, declared Madame Nhu, who knew only too well the uses that the V.C. were making of their own female stalwarts. One such is Kim Loan, a pistol-packing mama commanding a guerrilla company near Saigon, who occasionally slips into the town of Tan An for a hairdo. Other tools are the thousands of fishwives and fruitsellers in the market places of South Viet Nam's cities. Their vending stalls provide handy platforms for picking up information or passing propaganda and military messages...
...seem to dance. Strange things occur in the background, such as the appearance of a group of Impressionist painters sitting with a bandaged-eared Van Gogh at a cafe. At one point the reformed hero delivers a paean to marriage and the words "Author's Message" in roccoco script shoot across the screen...
...slide boards across to span the rivers. "Sure," says one Air Force officer, "they can slip their supplies through on sampans and rebuild their bridges by night, but for every hole in the road they will need a few more men, a few more trucks to replace those we shoot up. And they don't have unlimited resources...
Paul Revere hooked a wooden codfish above his coppersmith shop. In early Boston, children crowded around on Saturdays in hopes that the gilded Indian gleaming on the Province House cupola would, as superstition had it, shoot his arrow at high noon. In Pennsylvania, a weather vane in the shape of an Indian was meant as an offer of friendship-and hence protection from rampaging redskins. Soon every back-porch whittler and crackerjack craftsman was getting into the act. Weather vanes popped up in the shapes of Uncle Sam, butterflies, locomotives, Gabriel tooting on a trumpet, a haggard country doctor astraddle...