Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week, Senator Walsh, successfully defending Senator Wheeler (see above), further endeared himself to the people of Montana, and added to his prestige throughout the country. Three years hence, his party will pick a leader. It might pick a Montana hero who got his man, but scarcely one who shot and missed...
...three days the battle raged. One of the Black airplanes on reconnaissance was shot down. Two Blue destroyers and a minelayer unwarily came within range of the land batteries, and one of them was sunk. A Blue submarine caught sunning itself on the surface was sent to the bottom by a Black submarine tender . When the Blues pressed the attack, the umpires described the casualties as "very heavy"; in other words, the carnage was great. Tn the final attack, the Blues succeeded in capturing Haleiwa, a commanding position over the Pearl Harbor base. Promptly they were con ceded the victory...
...Caillaux sat, his fingers nervously tapping the desk, his bald head alternately red and white. Several times he rose to defend himself against the flagellations of his enemies; each time the friendly arm of M. Painlevé shot out to restrain him. Six times the Premier arose to his defense, twice M. Briand, the Foreign Minister, rose on a similar errand...
...from Alaska to marry an heiress. In Manhattan, going to me her guardian, the source of her wealth the engineer encounters him drugged and near death in his automobile before his house. Detectives are called. In their presence and that of his family the guardian, about to revive, is shot dead. No one sees the murderer. The search amid exciting intrigue continues all night in a house guarded by a cordon of detectives. Towards morning the murderer is discovered and the book ends...
Burr, Burr, what has thou done? Thou, has shooted dead great Hamilton. You hid behind a bunch of thistle And shot him dead with a great hoss pistol...