Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary remembers: "Father knew everybody in town-the harness maker, the policeman, the garbage collector ... A walk up Main Street used to be an ordeal. Father said, 'Now come on, Dean, we're going down to the post office.' Well, I knew that was a morning shot to hell...
Night after night in the months that followed, he entered darkened mansions wearing a black mask, and collected jewels and expensive furs. One night, a wealthy New Rochelle boat builder named Tulloch refused to cooperate; Dennis shot him coolly and neatly through the hand and walked out with $1,200 in cash and $3,000 worth of jewelry...
...their feet usually froze into icy stumps . . . and most of the victims died. One crazed fellow prisoner, to escape the logging detail, cut off one finger but was sent back to work. Losing his head completely, he chopped off his entire left hand, and collapsed unconscious. He was later shot for "malicious shirking of work...
...First Colony Corp.'s circular was no gag. It was simply an eye-catching way, usually frowned on by Wall Street, to get the public interested in buying stocks selling at far less than their book value. Said First Colony President J. G. Sittig: "The market needs a shot...
...first days of Overlord, the members of the sth crash ashore in France, and death begins its steady tithing. Corporal Shuttleworth dies with a snigger: "The cow, she'll get my pension." Major Maddison, leading a rash reconnaissance into disastrous ambush, is shot by one of his own infuriated men. Colonel Pothecary's turn comes too. "[He] rose to his feet . . . ignoring the bullets that squealed around him . . . They saw him stoop, pick a white flower from a hedgerow and fasten it, without haste, in his lapel. Everywhere in the meadow men rose and moved forward with...