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Word: shots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Solution. In Oklahoma City, authorities puzzled over the problem of Mrs. Bill Tucker, who shot her husband in the abdomen when she caught him flirting with the telephone girl in a bootleg liquor store, finally solved it by releasing the three principals, jailing the bootlegger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...been given was clear-to obliterate Japan's capacity to make war, and to start the country on the road to becoming a peaceful and democratic nation. The first months after the landings were a wonderful achievement. The Japanese army, navy and air force were liquidated without a shot fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: One or Many? | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...orchestra gave its first public performance and became the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra. Last year when the orchestra played for the radio, one listener-Arturo Toscanini-was delighted. He rushed to the phone and shouted to an NBC big shot: "This orchestra is wonderful ... who is this Rachmilovich? . . . Let's have him here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Playing for Fun | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...Connolly's highbrow British magazine Horizon. The published fragments read sometimes like a sophisticated traveler's guidebook, sometimes like a recital of Important People I Have Known, sometimes like Major Hoople, sometimes like crumbs from Winston Churchill's table. But the mass of entertaining trivia is shot through with eloquence, wit, and an artist's imagery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gypsy John | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...really sink its teeth in; and it has been screened with a Broadway kind of incisiveness. It isn't in any pure sense a movie; but under Michael Gordon's direction it is a nearly perfect example of how to film a play. There is hardly a shot which does not set up visual tension against the lashing, steel-spring dialogue; there is not a single performance which is short of adequate; the work of Miss Eldridge, Mr. O'Brien and Betsey Blair, as a shaky-minded neighbor, is much more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

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