Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shanghai, Chinese patriots played the grimmer game of "shoot the traitors," killed Tcheng Loh, Foreign Minister in Japan's "Reformed" Nanking Government, a former Chinese Minister to France (1920-27). Like many of his colleagues, Tcheng Loh found Nanking too hot for him, some time ago took refuge in the Japanese-controlled quarter of Shanghai, leaving detailed administration in Nanking to his Japanese advisers. Even in Shanghai, however, Japan finds it difficult to protect her creatures. Tcheng Loh was the 52nd victim of political assassination in the Shanghai area since Japanese occupation of the city...
...Only 12% suggested death as a way out. Most of these callously told Lonely Man to shoot himself or jump off North Hill viaduct (favorite local suicide spot...
...independent. But the faction under the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem has long tried to achieve that end by terrorism, while the Defense Arabs, under two leaders, Fakhri Bey Nashashibi and his uncle Ragheb, wanted negotiation. The Mufti Arabs refused to negotiate with the Defense Arabs, whom they would shoot on sight in Palestine. By diligent shuttling Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald finally got them together...
...Dealism-you shoot one cow, milk the other, and then pour the milk down the sink. -From the Christian Science Monitor
...Lawrence proclaimed the need for killing off individual "schemers of all kinds" instead of indiscriminate killing in war. When Merrild asked whom he would kill first, Lawrence said Mabel Dodge. Merrild asked if he would shoot her or strangle her. "No," said Lawrence growing pale, "I will cut her throat...