Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brother, was madly in love with you when you were on the stage." Piped young Talbot: "That's nothing. My grandfather had a crush on you, too." Replied Betty: "I remember him well. He and I were having a beer at Delmonico's the night Lincoln was shot...
Within two hours after Togliatti was shot, the machinery of insurrection clanked and rumbled into action as if the control lever had been accidentally jarred. The Red press screamed "Murderers!" at the government. In Rome a mob of sweating, cursing workers hurled cobblestones at grey-clad mobile police, who fired into the air and swung their clubs in earnest. The mobs that poured into the streets frightened the elegant aristocracy and the free-spending tourists in the Via Vittorio Veneto; these gentry, knowing they might be targets for Communist vengeance, retreated to their select caverns of safety, the cool bars...
...witnesses at the second trial had been the governor of Ankara province, for whom Orbay had worked as private secretary. Day after his testimony the governor was found dead in his bed, shot through the temple by a gun found on a radiator twelve feet away. The official verdict was suicide...
Second Down. In the shot-put, five of the six finalists did better than the Olympic record of 53 ft. if in. But the great Fonville, bothered by a wrenched back, finished fourth-off the squad. In first place was San Francisco's solemn, burly, Francis Delaney, who used to put the shot for Notre Dame, and bettered the existing Olympic record by two feet...
...Outlaw that his interest reached its fullest flower. In the flogging scene, when the bosom movement seemed unsatisfactory, Hughes decided that it was an engineering problem, called for his drawing board, designed a new brassiere for his star, Jane Russell. Thereafter the scene was shot to his entire liking...