Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shot him five times. I shot him like a soldier who knows how to shoot, and I shot straight so as not to hit any innocent passerby. At the fifth shot he fell. He didn't say a word. There were only cries and convulsions...
Crime. Simon Petlura was shot at the corner of the Rue Racine, and the Boulevard St. Michel, on May 25, 1926. As M. Schwartzbard described the murder to the court...
...instead of producing the expected petition, whipped out a revolver and fired through the windshield at the aged president. Smiles on the faces of policemen faded instantly. Before the assailant could pull the trigger twice a dozen strong arms of the law had siezed him. Soldiers, alarmed by the shot, became rigid, threw a cordon around the would-be assassin to prevent his being torn asunder by the infuriated...
...knows how many sick, mangled and dead people have been brought into the admitting ward. Since 1902 the number has been 1,442,747. Another 1,750,000 have gone in for minor injuries. When an amateur writer shot Novelist David Graham Phillips in 1911, an ambulance took the body from a sidewalk near the old Princeton club and carried it to the admitting ward...
There is a new citizen in Oklahoma City. He has been twice sentenced to prison. He shot a man. Despite these facts, he will undoubtedly become an Oklahoma City leader...