Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undeterred, continued on her course. Last week, returning home one evening from a meeting of Sunday School teachers, she arrived just as a thunderstorm burst. She lit a light and sat down to sew near a window. Above the roar of the thunder, there was the crack of a shot. Through the fractured window, a bullet sank into her heart. The assailant escaped...
...hour before dawn, two winds met. One was moist and warm, the other cold and dry. Comingled ? the warm wind climbing the front of the cold ? they became a single ferocity which shot upwards pummelling, as it went, the Shenandoah, U. S. Navy dirigible...
...including three who had left the control-cabin, it began to spin. Those of the seven who were not desperately engaged in keeping their seats astride a girder, valved gas as freely, as quickly as they could. The lost mountain spinned ? earthward. Nearing ground, Chief Machinist Halliburton fired shot into the gas envelope. Through the twilight, a farmer was signalled, caught a guide-rope, wrapped it about a tree. The nose had arrived safely, only one man being injured...
...clever writer, fashioning a story of that morning's play, would make the reader feel that Gunn was going to win. He would dwell on the amazing machine-like perfection of Gunn's every stroke. He would describe how since Jones was playing par golf, Gunn shot under par to win holes from him. He would hint that Gunn could not keep it up. The reader would gather the conviction that Gunn was most certainly going to keep it up. But this would be a literary trick...
...measured stride of the golfer, this youth employed a furious, irregular lope. Suddenly, without a waggle, in a pause that hardly broke his stride, his club described an invisible arc; several seconds afterward, pushing its path through the lucent walls of summer air, the sound of his spoon-shot reached the two old men. The youth, running as hard as he could, disappeared behind the hill; reemerged, a short time after, upon another; played one of his polo-like strokes-was off again. The two dotards looked at each other. Without a word, but trembling slightly, they turned and began...