Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duff shot back: "Do the job yourselves before I've got to put the iron...
Roosevelt shot it back with the comment: "That is mighty sweet of you, and if I were a Frenchman I would kiss you on both cheeks. As an American, all I can say is 'you are a very good...
...student and fellow revolutionary a heartfelt Latin abrazo. "I've said it many times before and I repeat it now," said Grau, "Prio is well able to assume the direction of the destinies of Cuba." Out in the Parque Central, thousands of excited Cubans tooted more horns, shot rockets into the tropical night...
...Robinson Crusoe is not the only literary offspring of the Juan Fernández. In 1719, a mariner aboard the English privateer Speedwell shot a black albatross. Seven months later, the Speedwell was wrecked on Más-a-Tierra's rocky shore. On that episode Samuel Taylor Coleridge based the shooting of the albatross in The Rime oj the Ancient Mariner...
...Commencement appearance of Paul G. Hoffman comes not only at the striking moment one year after Secretary Marshall's opening shot for European Recovery but also at a moment when the fate of United States foreign policy suffers the meanest of political buffetings in Washington. It is a time close to the national convention of a party split, as with any group of men expecting power, by fierce final struggling for commanding position. Homeground evidence of the overriding importance of the outcome of this competition has existed during the past two weeks in the rampant speculation about Republican Presidential hopefuls...