Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shartel, Cochran & Pruet, he found his man, now a prosperous oil lawyer. Godbey spotted him in the hall, blurted out, "I have a divorce case." For a minute, Lawyer Pruet eyed the stooped, grey-haired stranger. Then he turned away, muttering "Wait a minute." Godbey drew a .38 and shot Pruet in the back twice, walked out of the office and vanished into the late afternoon crowd...
...Much Milk. For execution as "friends of Americans," Communist spies picked out government officials, civil servants, factory managers and foremen, shopkeepers. In all, some 75 civilians were shot, clubbed or burned to death. Many people hid by standing up to their necks in the icy streams over which their houses were built...
...black-shawled women. Some of the dead, laid out in open clapboard coffins, had ears hacked off, eyes gouged out. In the ruined hospital, strewn among wrecked operating tables and X-ray machines, were blood-soaked and bullet-riddled mattresses-proof that the sick and wounded had been shot...
...Geneva and Bern ("hot-air factories," his friend Ussishkin called them), Weizmann continued to argue. He fought assimilationists and Marxist revolutionaries alike. When Lenin, Trotsky and Plekhanov (who frequented the same cafés) heard of his "counter revolutionary" talk, Plekhanov, in a rage, objected. Weizmann shot back: "But Monsieur Plekhanov, you are not the Czar...
...different view. Stone-faced Charles H. Strub (rhymes with rube), 64, built Santa Anita, bossed it, drew down $334,000 in salary and bonuses in 1948. Last week, he put on his usual $50,000 weekend race, the Santa Margarita Handicap (won by Lurline B, a 30-to-1 shot). This week, the first of his three $100,000 races, the Maturity Stakes, would...