Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he take a detour to avoid snipers, Bernadotte said: "I must take the same risks as my observers." Near Jerusalem's Hebrew University, his car was hit by an irregular's bullet. Said he: "I do not like irregulars, and I do not like to be shot...
...that I must ... go home ... I fainted. When I came to, Bukharin was trying to feed me tea. 'Ruth,' he told me, 'you will go home. We are not terrorists against our own comrades . . .' I departed the same day." Stalin subsequently had Zinoviev and Bukharin shot, but for other reasons...
...Another patient was Richard Hillary, who wrote his highly acclaimed reminiscences of Oxford and the war, Falling Through Space and The Last Enemy, in the hospital, left to rejoin the R.A.F. and was shot down in action six weeks later. His heroics inspired Arthur Koestler's essay, The Birth of a Myth...
...young Jane Powell, who is expected to carry the burden of a clumsy plot about a sea captain (George Brent) and his amorous passengers. Miss Powell makes a game try against heavy odds. The handling of Mr. Melchior, who also tries hard, is in the Hollywood tradition: two pan shots of enraptured listeners to every shot of an opera singer in action. Luxury Liner has also stowed in its cargo Xavier Cugat, his orchestra, and his miniature pooch. The ship was badly overloaded before it ever cast...
Song in Salzburg. As his oddly reckless vocabulary shows, the trip must have been a heady one for the footloose professor. Flying to Europe he sat beside "a very burly guy," agreed with him that the Hearstpapers were "lousy" and chatted "with a last shot of Canadian Club under our belts." In Salzburg, he showed that he could be one of the boys by riding through the streets late at night, singing with a truckload of students. And he had "one gay moment" at a beer party when fellow U.S. Lecturer Alfred Kazin led the group in singing the Internationale...