Word: shot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cornell tallied in the first six minutes of play on a long shot fired from the left wing which Crimson goalie Whoop Batchelder deflected but could not stop. Within five more minutes, the big Red had scored again when a kick from a Cornell halfback bounced away from Batchelder and the center forward booted...
Grandpa Thurmond's son John saw the South meet violence with violence. John studied law and hitched his star to "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman,* South Carolina's demagogic Governor and Senator. Ben Tillman had a short answer for the Negro problem. He told the U.S. Senate: "We shot them. We are not ashamed of it ... We will not submit to Negro domination under any conditions that you may prescribe...
John Thurmond became Tillman's attorney and boss of Edgefield County. One day, when a drummer for a drug company used "hot language" about John being a Tillmanite and threatened John with a knife, John shot him dead. The jury's verdict: not guilty of murder...
...Louis' "Betting Commissioner" James J. Carroll quoted Dewey at 1 to 15 to win the election. Truman was an 8 to 1 shot. (The odds on Roosevelt...
...Russian looked pained. "I don't believe it. I am too good a shot and I wasn't aiming to hit anyone," he said. "Why should anyone be concerned about a German getting shot? All right, I created an incident. I want to apologize profusely. Now may I have my motorcycle...