Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arms are so much a part of the scenery, violence so much an accepted condition, that the news is chronicled in Nicosia's newspapers like the day's temperature readings: the British sergeant's 17-year-old son shot in the back of the head by Greek Cypriot EOKA terrorists; the trusting, 62-year-old British importer killed by gunfire as he stepped into his car; the three terrorists blown up by their own crude bomb; the pencil bomb that went off last week in a British airman's kit bag just before...
Insults & Accusations. Under the great chandeliers of the Lancaster House music room, where Chopin once played for Queen Victoria, the Premiers bickered, shot insults back and forth like poisoned darts. When the conference took up the ticklish problem of how to protect the rights of minorities among Nigeria's 250 tribes, Awolowo suggested creating three new states. The North's Sardauna, not wishing to relinquish any of his own territory, vetoed the idea. Nor did he like the plan for a centralized police force under the federal government: he much preferred to use his own force, which, answerable...
...passengers and crew. In the backlands where rebel bands roam more or less at will, candidates were terrorized. They could not make campaign speeches, shake hands, or get before the people in any fashion, except from the safety of heavily guarded TV stations. A few were shot down. In Oriente province, balloting was virtually impossible. In a frenzy of rage, Castro laid ambushes along the major highways. Burnt-out cars and buses studded the roads, and Santiago, capital of Oriente, was virtually cut off. To make his point clear, Castro got on the rebel radio and warned: "The orders...
...when Novelist Frederic Wakeman sent Adman Victor Norman into the high-salary altitudes of The Hucksters, he let his man enjoy the big, bad money for a while, then shot him down in a barrage of hack-ack. But the new heroes do not come to bad ends. They are drumbeatniks who brood during a few drinks about the morality of what they are doing, then get over it. Author Stephens' hero, for instance, guiltily grows an ulcer after he rings in an infected blood sample in the yearly Wassermann test the agency requires his boss to take...
...made the mouse comes full circle with a report on the lion. His Majesty, the King of Beasts is taken from 100,000 ft. of film shot in Africa...