Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Facts & Figures. Brisk and beaming at an early morning press conference, General Clay scattered the good news like bird shot. In Western Germany, he said, "there has been an almost unbelievable recovery." The airlift into beleaguered Berlin, he said, now carried 5,000 tons of food and fuel a day during good weather and 3,000 "under very bad conditions." This would be enough to keep Berlin supplied through the winter; besides, he had wangled 66 additional C-54s for the airlift (see Armed Forces...
With MacArthur's words to encourage them, the South Korean army energetically set about crushing the revolt. It had begun one morning before dawn, when 40 Communist members of a brigade stationed in the far southern port of Yosu shot their officers and bullied their sleepy comrades into attacking the city police station. They took over all of Yosu, then headed north, picking up confused recruits along the way. By the time they reached Sunchon, a city of 75,000, their force had grown to around...
...awful green," Alicia reflects. "And it was a 100-to-1 shot." The newspaper she created is no carbon copy of the Daily News. Its front page is loud, but inside pages are made up like a magazine, with every item dummied to the last line of type. She hates the tabloid habit of marooning bits of news among seas of ads. Newsday's ads don't get in the way of full columns of Long Island news, and the advertisers have learned to like...
Today, the patient is practically as good as new physically. Mentally, she is much better. Before she shot herself, Dr. Holmes explained, she had a "pyramiding depression" (a depression that grows steadily worse). The shotgun blast had, in effect, performed in seconds a brain operation that ordinarily takes hours. It was "practically the same," said Dr. Holmes, as an anterior lobectomy-i.e., part of the frontal areas of the brain, which control emotions, had been cut through. At the hospital the patient was "perfectly oriented and cooperative"; she is now working in a hotel and living normally with...
From the start of the Varsity game there was never much doubt that Navy would win, for it consistently took possession of the hall from Crimson players, and in 6:10 of the opening period Archie Ruggieri, the Middies' outside left, shot the ball past goalie Loring Hatchelder who was screened on the play...