Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That night Chehab's army cracked down as it never had when Chehab was merely army chief, charged with upholding the authority of the Chamoun government. Troops were ordered to shoot armed civilians on sight. Army patrols shot and killed two men who pulled guns to stop a car in the Moslem quarter. Phalange Chief Pierre Gemayel hastily announced he was all for peace...
Salk vaccine shots were so ignored in Detroit this summer that doctors and druggists had to return outdated supplies. Last week, with a growing epidemic, Detroit was the worst polio spot in the U.S. Statistics: 464 current cases (230 paralytic) and 14 deaths, against a total of 163 cases and two deaths by the same week last year. Well over half (279) of the victims were Negroes, mainly children under 15, centered in the city's low-income Negro sections. This week they could plead neither ignorance nor poverty. Polio was suddenly Detroit's best-publicized word...
...Democrat had the picture on the streets for voters to see as they headed for the polls. The Associated Press (which used the Democrat's shot) and the U.P.I, both moved the picture without a hint that it was staged. Unwarned, the New York Sunday News printed U.P.I.'s picture with a caption saluting the "eloquent look in the eyes" of the woman and boy. The moderate Arkansas Gazette later disclosed that the picture was staged, but by then the voting was over, and the segregationists had won (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...wouldn't say that, Mr. President," shot back Smith. "I've been playing in the minor leagues...
Eventually Velma turns Bogart out, and when, a little later, he jumps out of his hiding place to look for Pard, he is shot dead. There may be a lesson in this...