Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bear-one of many which have taken to invading Minnesota towns-chased three Duluth youngsters out of a launch, and drifted complacently in it until the police shot...
When a 17-year-old youth named Lawrence Mack knocked on his door one night last week and tried to collect for some cleaning work, Craig ran true to form. He yanked out a pistol. As the youth began to sprint down the street, Craig took a shot...
Zaim had lived bravely, perhaps, but certainly not prudently. He had been chief of staff in Syria's disastrous war with Palestine. After he seized power (TIME, April 11), he shot no one and jailed only a few, but in his 4½ short months of dictatorship he made many enemies. He offended Moslem religious leaders when he proposed that women give up their veils, gain the vote; he alienated the wealthy because he raised taxes, the merchants because he lowered prices. Nationalists were sore because he gave concessions to the U.S. Trans-Arabian Pipeline Co. and signed...
...Ambidextrous 19-year-old Beverly Baker of Santa Monica, Calif., who took a first set from Brough at Manchester. Freckle-faced, pug-nosed Tennist Baker changes her racket from hand to hand and strokes every shot on her forehand. She hits hard, but needs more experience, more change of pace. Most of her courtmates think she will be the champ some day-maybe soon. At 19, Beverly has plenty of time...
...shrilled against a "red-uniformed army which today has an outpost . . . even in the remotest parts of our countryside." Communists launched a whispering campaign that the "army" sold a drink which could turn a child's hair white overnight. Last week, the official Communist organ L'Unita shot the works in a headline: DRINKS COCA-COLA AND DIES. (L'Unita's victim was identified by another newspaper as a heart fatality...