Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...European population of Algeria would be restive and potentially dangerous. But it was a measure of De Gaulle's moral force and the success of his mission that not a single member of the Committee of Public Safety had dared to challenge the general's parting shot: "You must help De Gaulle, but you must not push him. He would not like that...
Victor Sassoon's 18-to-1 shot, Hard Ridden, win the 179th running of the Derby Stakes while the Queen's horse, Miner's Lamp, trailed in fifth...
...Back Door. Reporters, trying to reflect the drama of a tense week, were driven to recording the comings and goings of black limousines-the visible external evidence of fateful activities. Shortly after 10:30 one night early last week, an official car, preceded by a noisy motorcycle escort, shot out of the courtyard of the Hotel Matignon, official Parisian residence of France's Premiers. Instantly, the shoal of reporters who were keeping a round-the-clock watch on the final agonies of the Fourth Republic set off in hot pursuit. As they left (in chase after a decoy...
...much of the show is shot in the huge tanks of the world's biggest aquarium. California's Marineland of the Pacific at Palos Verdes. Even in the tanks, filming Sea Hunt is risky. Bubbles, Marineland's 1,800-lb. pilot whale cow, once pinned astonished Chief Cameraman Lamar (The Old Man and the Sea) Boren against a tank window out of crushing affection. Actor Bridges, a muscular, sandy-haired man of 45, yearns to ride Bubbles, but Tors vetoes the idea: "All Bubbles has to do is to flip her tail and I lose my leading...
...this era of $100,000 bonuses for hot-shot high school kids who often end up in the bushes, the $4,000 paid to Bill Mazeroski for signing his contract seems more and more the best bargain Branch Rickey ever made. "Pound for dollar," says Pittsburgh Baseball Announcer Bob Prince in the lingo of the press box, "Mazeroski is far and away the most valuable chattel in the Pirate empire...