Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concerning 16-year-old Diana Humphries, who shot her younger brother while her parents were out working: When will these working mothers accept the plain fact that what a child wants and needs in the home is simply a mother. And will they ever learn that no house needs carpeting, new furniture and appliances as much as a child needs the presence of a mother whose love, attention and energy will create a lively and happy atmosphere...
...shot flamethrower made of aluminum, weighing 27 lbs. (v. conventional 72 lbs.), carries two gallons of fuel, is discarded after use, later is picked up for refitting...
...army commander in central Israel ordered a 5 p.m. curfew enforced in Arab villages near the Jordan border. Colonel Issachar Shadmi told Major Shmuel Malinki of the border police that this order was to be strictly enforced, that any villager found abroad after the curfew hour was to be shot. In midafternoon Major Malinki passed the order along to his company commanders, adding, "May Allah have mercy on their souls." On the stroke of 5, Lieut. Gabriel Dehan deployed his constables in three groups around the Arab village of Kfar Kassim. In the next hours his cops shot and killed...
...Inner Mongolia, reported New China News Agency, peasants "marked the occasion with revelry that included singing, dancing, and decorating their houses with lamps." In Kiangsi province they beat drums and gongs and shot off firecrackers. Cause of all this merriment: formation of two new "people's communes"-the most determined attempt yet to reduce human beings to the status of ants...
...jewels. Then he rented an ancient Wall camera, and on the first fine Sunday after that, he rounded up a few actor friends, piled them into a taxi, and headed upcountry to a picturesque village he knew. There and thereabouts, heedless of the fact that he had never shot a foot of film in his life, Satyajit Ray (pronounced Sawt-yaw-jit Rye) plugged away at his movie project whenever he had a day off from his paying job. After about a year and a half of Sunday shooting, he persuaded the West Bengali provincial government to finance the production...