Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mouzenides told me to tell Polk, 'for security's sake we'll have to blindfold you.' Polk replied: 'I've no objection; go ahead.' " Then Polk's hands & feet were bound. "We continued rowing out to sea. Suddenly, I heard a shot. I jumped up, saw Polk fall forward on his knees . . ." Staktopoulos did not know why he wasn't shot too. He was put ashore and told to get his mother to send Polk's identity card to police. Eventually, the handwriting led the cops to the mother...
...tried to kick his way out of the airplane. Despite all his armor (a helmet, knee guards and heavy leg bandages), by the time he was unloaded in New York Bayeux was bruised and scratched. Four days later, the two horses paraded postward at Belmont Park to take their shot at Citation in the $100,000 Gold...
Frenchmen's Progress. France had progress to report in motorcar building. Production had already caught up with the prewar levels (in April and June it shot up to 106% of the prewar rate, fell below it in July and August because of workers' vacations). In 1948's first half, the French industry had exported 57% of its total passenger-car production and 14% of all commercial cars, to ring up a whopping $144 million in foreign sales. In September, France's nationalized Renault plant had more U.S. orders (3,200) than it could fill (it shipped...
...Atlanta, during a demonstration to show schoolchildren what to do in case of fire, seven firemen were overcome by smoke. In Clarkston, Wash., Golf Professional Joe Durgan, showing Pupil Howard Melcher how to swing a golf club, shot his first hole...
Roche played beautiful ball all the way. His punting was superb, with one long shot to the Dartmouth four-yard line far and away the best of the day. He ran well many times, and his touchdown pass to Ken O'Donnell was a masterpiece of timing and execution...