Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game ended with the score tied at 61 points. Then, in the second overtime period, with the Oilers leading by one point, somebody threw a firecracker. Thinking it was the final gun, the Oilers walked off the floor. A Kentucky player playfully grabbed the ball, and shot a basket. Then the regular gun sounded, ending the game. Hundreds of fans swarmed on to the floor, to find out what had happened. The answer was simple: Kentucky had won the game...
Close to the Costa Rican frontier, 100 Costa Rican exiles and Nicaraguans were getting small-arms training. Last fortnight a like group staged a practice patrol across the border. Figueres forces shot them up, captured some Nicaraguans bearing Sten guns which had been shipped in by Trujillo...
...night of his death, George Polk ate a hearty lobster dinner, perhaps in a waterfront café on dirty Niki Street. A short time later, Polk was shot point-blank from behind with a long-barreled gun, then tied up with 30 feet of rope. Probable scene of the crime: one of the countless coastwise vessels with which the harbor swarms. (To shoot Polk first and then drag his bleeding, trussed body through Salonika's streets could hardly have escaped notice; to lure him to a caique, and then shoot him in a below-deck cabin, would have been...
General Motors, which started the third round on May 25, had agreed to raise wages again if the cost of living went up. Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the consumers' price index rose seven-tenths of 1%. Meat prices, said the B.L.S., had shot...
...eloquence; sometimes he even applauded, but he regarded their speeches generally as so much windy verbiage. Though his ministry was corrupt, he was personally honest, went into debt, and wept in the House of Commons over his poverty. When he heard the news of Yorktown, he staggered as though shot, cried: "Oh God, it is all over...