Word: shot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman's expected blast at Communism this week, the Democrats dug deep, bought national radio coverage. *John Taber shot back: "Mr. Truman knows that I never made any such statement. What I said was this: 'The minute anyone demands a business administration and elimination of the leeches in the Government payroll, they squeal like a stuck pig.' " *A local delicacy which can be shot only between 4 p.m. and sunset on three days a year...
Bartley Crum, publisher of the New York Star, produced an even more striking theory: he seemed to be saying that Bernadotte himself was an agent provocateur and had deliberately exposed himself to assassination. Crum declared that when Bernadotte set out on the inspection tour during which he was shot, he "had taken a devious, roundabout route which led him, for no reason whatever, directly through the Stern gang stronghold." (Actually, the Sternists did not control any one part of Jerusalem; their known headquarters were nowhere along Bernadotte's route...
...boiled a ground squirrel shot by Kastner. It made one meal. Then Scalise found mushrooms and boiled them. Custer was sure they were poisonous, but Scalise dropped a silver coin into the brew and when it stayed shiny, instead of turning black, Custer was satisfied. Scalise shot a porcupine. Says Custer: "It was a lovely dish-we had it for days...
...jibe at punctuality: in all of thin-aired La Paz there is no dependable timepiece. The city (almost due south of Bar Harbor, Me.) has only two public clocks: one, on the Banco Mercantil, seldom runs; the other, on the Congress Building, keeps time erratically because it has been shot up so often in Bolivia's revolutions. Radio programs often begin & end according to the announcer's wristwatch...
...underestimate the power of a woman. This week., to prove that admen don't, the October Ladies' Home Journal carried a staggering; $2,677,260 worth of ads on its 278 pages., more than any magazine had ever crammed, into a single issue. It was no one-shot freak; the Journal was breaking its own record, and next month will do even better, having just raised its ad rates...