Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weakness of the present Republican management has been its disposition to shoot off all their fireworks now, instead of waiting for the campaign. That reminds me of the boy who gets so eager that he just has to buy a giant firecracker three days before the Fourth of July, and then on the night of the third he simply can't stand it any longer and gets up and fires...
...deputy sheriff (TIME, Oct. 7). For a mile in either direction the road was black with their automobiles. There was little sobbing in the crowd, much angry muttering. Posted in the yard was a sign which read: THIS IS WHERE PUBLIC SERVICE SENT THEIR COLD-BLOODED KILLERS TO SHOOT INNOCENT CITIZENS WHO SOUGHT TO DEFEND THEIR HOME. In the drab parlor, where John Crempa and his young son and daughter, all arrested last fortnight, sat fiercely brooding, a Roman Catholic priest intoned the service for the dead. Then Sophie Crempa's corpse was lifted in its coffin through...
...keep the Italian Minister, Count Vinci-Gigliucci from being lynched, the Emperor had to seat that diplomat close to himself. Brandishing ancient guns and showing empty cartridge belts, fierce tribesmen kept shouting at their sovereign, "Give us bullets! We want to shoot!" Meanwhile Ethiopia's Coptic clergy, supposed to play a prominent role in celebrating the end of the rainy season, were repeatedly driven indoors by a violent tropical storm which raged around His Majesty with shrill tempest screeches until the ground was covered with three inches of water and pasteboard coronation emblems were washed from the Triumphal Arch...
...said yesterday that it is still much too early to offer any comment concerning the latent possibilities in this year's green material, but that it seemed to be a bit lighter than usual. So that he can devote all his time to impressing the fundamentals of a quick shoot-away and slo-o-ow recovery to his bargemen, he has turned the experienced Freshmen, including three prep school captains, over to Charlie Whiteside, varsity mentor...
...mass vigil began: by his wife, daughter, two boys and three hastily reconciled brothers at the bedside; by his miscellaneous henchmen in the corridor outside; by a brigade of newshawks downstairs; by a truculent detachment of State troopers and bodyguards around the building who were ordered to shoot photographers on sight; and by a horde of onlookers who shuffled up & down in front of the hospital. While the Senator's political enemies buried Assassin Weiss with honor in a nearby Catholic cemetery next day, the Senator's doctors ordered five successive blood transfusions, adrenalin injections, an oxygen tent...