Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real question has never been decided: Is the party, as many Americans have long believed, a tightly controlled, Moscow-directed conspiracy aimed at overthrowing the U.S. Government?* But last week, after more than a year of secret hearings, a federal grand jury sitting in Manhattan fired the first shot of a new barrage. Its charge was a collective indictment of the twelve men who run the U.S. Communist Party-its entire national board-as conspirators "dedicated to the Marxist-Leninist principles of the overthrow and destruction of the Government ... by force and violence." In addition, each of the twelve...
...women outside and into the car, told them to take off their clothes. The automobile moved off through the darkness, finally pulled up beside a cornfield. Daniels forced the Niebels to walk out among the rustling stalks. "Kneel down," he ordered. They knelt-naked, shivering, sick with terror. West shot Mrs. Niebel in the stomach. His pistol jammed. Daniels shot her in the head. He fired twice more, and Niebel and his daughter toppled over, dying. The two gunmen walked back to their car and drove away...
...hope of getting false identification and a new getaway car. He leaped out, looked in at a man and woman, said: "You're going too fast-give me your driver's license." The driver, a farmer named James Smith, refused. Johnny West pulled a pistol, shot him through the head...
...most formidable hazards of the whole journey looms at the banks of the wide Taling River. Here the Communist line ends. On the river's opposite shore Nationalists stand guard. Whoever tries to wade, swim or boat across will be shot. This is a precaution against possible over-water attack by disguised Communists. The only unmolested transit is by way of the blasted railway bridge, a fearful half mile catwalk of twisted girders...
Thanks to four on-the-spot darkrooms and an Acme-developed machine called the Trans-Ceiver, only 23 minutes elapsed from the time a photographer shot a picture in the hall until Acme transmitted it to a newspaper client's office anywhere in the U.S. When the Secret Service locked the Convention Hall doors after President Truman arrived, incidentally trapping A.P. and I.N.P. messengers, Acme's margin of half an hour on the other services jumped temporarily to an hour...