Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last month in Aiken, S. C., a band of the new gentry lynched three Negroes, Demon and Clarence Lowman and their sister Bertha, with a refinement of tactics (TIME, Oct. 18). They hauled their prey out of jail one night, took them out of town, told them to run, shot them in the face and chest as they turned to look. In 200 parked cars the gentry stepped on their starters, satisfied...
...recalled his conference with General Pershing and General Haig on the eve of the final Allied Grand Offensive (1918). General Pershing said that his men were insufficiently trained and tried. "How can I throw them into a big offensive?" Sir Douglas (now Earl) Haig insisted that his army was "shot to pieces," asked, "How can we advance...
After two passes that shot like lances through the gathering dusk, it was the good right foot of Wadsworth, substitute back, which offset the wonder pass from Chauncey to Saltonstall that sent Harvard momentarily into the lead and the Crimson stands into a riot of joy. Previously, it had been a mighty punt by Noble that put the Bulldog on the way to its first score, and in the closing minutes Captain Bunnell tore away the last shred of Crimson hopes with his great 40-yard field goal...
...next break came early in the second half when Yale fumbled on its own 29-yard line, and Saltonstall fell on the pigskin and held it tight. Three yards were lost at the line on the next play, and then Chauncey fell back and shot the bullet-like pass to Saltonstall that carried the Harvard hopes. At full speed, stretching and straining, Saltonstall clutched the oval and dashed the ten yards to tie the count. Chauncey's drop-kick put Harvard ahead...
...betrayed into the hands of the Mexican generals, and, refusing to avail himself of various opportunities to escape, was shot a month later as a murderer and brigand...