Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fighter, fighting in a dark arena. "Manuel was facing the bull again, the muleta held low and to the left. The bull's head was down as he watched the muleta. . . . He felt the sword buckle as he shoved it in, leaning his weight on it, and then it shot high in the air, end-over-ending into the crowd. Manuel had jumped clear as the sword jumped. The first cushions thrown out of the dark missed him. Then one hit him in the face, his bloody face looking towards the crowd. . . . 'Thank you,' he said. 'Thank...
Captain Goos tried to haul up the American Girl, too, but gasoline ran over her hot engine, took fire. The flames shot into a towering pyramid, higher than the rescuing ship. An oil tanker avoids flames. The American Girl was abandoned. Said Miss Elder: "It was like watching an old friend drown...
...days later General Alfredo Rueda Quijano, and 13 legislators, were similarly shot. General Quijano pleaded at his trial that he had been duped, but it made no difference. He was led out into the sunshine, nonchalantly gallant. A large crowd gathered to see his end and more than 1,000 troops were assembled to do him a last gruesome honor. He was marched to a pile of stones and ordered to stand with his back to it. But this did not suit him and he elected to be shot with his back to a wall...
...following day General Alfonso de la Huerta, brother of General Adolfo de la Huerta, was captured, tried and shot. "Here is another rebel general," read the placard that was affixed to his body as it was exhibited publicly in Nogales, Sonora...
...Chicago last week, Casper Rusnak, 35, Mrs. Winska Rusnak, 30, were arrested and charged with the murder of their daughter Helen, two years old. Casper Rusnak was drunk. Winska Rusnak, once insane, admitted that she had shot her daughter, but could...