Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boat betrays the nearness of the eight ahead, the cox hitherto vociferous in his assertions that the crew is "right up on them" becomes suddenly silent. The time has come when he must earn his passage. Slowly, infinitely slowly, the bows curve in. Too much rudder or a shot the wrong way, for it is impossible to see, means ruin. But he knows his boat and can tell from the feel what is happening. At last there is a slight jolt and the cox ahead rises his hand. But it is a tremendous relief to all when "easy all' follows...
...into an ambush prepared for him by General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, who personally made the capture. A few hours later he was executed by a firing squad in the hamlet of Teocelo, Vera Cruz. With him died his nephew, Lieut. Col. Francisco Gomez Vizcarra. Shortly afterwards, Federal troops also shot General Adalberto Palacios, Colonel Salvador Costanos, Major Francisco Meza Perez. Their bodies were all shipped to Mexico City, where their relatives claimed them. Each showed a bullet hole through the temple...
...hotel room he got out the photographs that had been taken of him years ago. Marceline himself had to smile a little at those merry mocking faces. Then, at four o'clock in the morning, he reached for his revolver and shot himself. His body slumped down by the bed on which the photographs were spread out; when Essie Goodman came in the first time, she went out again very quietly, because she thought he was praying...
...Crimson team sent the ball into the net twice in succession. W. R. Daniellian '28 accounted for the first of these scores while L. L. Driggs '28 made the second while the third marker came in the last period when P. T. Haskell '28 evaded the Brown backs and shot the ball into...
...years ago a hotel employe in East Las Vegas, N. M., tried to separate two fighting men. One of the fighters shot; hit the peacemaker, by mistake, in the throat. The shooter was Carl C. Magee, Scripps Howard newspaper editor, his opponent David D. Leahy, a former judge who had thrice sentenced Magee to prison-once for libel and twice for contempt of court. The libel was published in Magee's Albuquerque newspaper in exposures of state government corruption. Two pardons and a habeas corpus proceedings kept Mr. Magee at large. Magee's testimony of recent prosperity...