Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white-robed figure scrambled selfconsciously to the courthouse lawn with a pesthole digger. Four more, grunting quite humanly, lugged up a big kerosene-drenched cross. One touched a match to it. As the flames shot up, a green-robed man-Atlanta Physician Samuel Green, Georgia's Grand Dragon-stepped into the light...
...night last week Betty Jane Kroeger, 17, killed her mother. She confessed later: "Mother refused to let me go tb St. Louis, so I shot her." Next morning she drove to her father's store in Eminence, Mo., where he had been spending nights because of a series of robberies, and shot him while he slept. Then she drove to St. Louis, and just "shopped around...
This week, sentenced by the Chinese to die for espionage, Yoshiko asked not to be put to death at Peiping's Bridge of Heaven. She said she would be "greatly embarrassed" unless she was shot privately and without fanfare...
Although Chile will demand a hearing on Antarctica at the Bogota conference this spring, González Videla intended to handle things in his own direct-action way . for the time being. With Bogotá-bound Pascual la Rosa, Argentine Foreign Office big shot, he signed an accord for a common front against Britain and negotiation of disputed Argentine-Chilean claims in the polar regions...
...indigestion; big Leo Barnhorst said he had a sprained ankle and Johnny Brennan complained of a sore throat. Last week, with stiff upper lips and handsome gold uniforms, Underdog Notre Dame (beaten seven times this season) limped out on the floor at Madison Square Garden to play hot-shot N.Y.U., only undefeated college team...