Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embassies in which members of the ousted dictator's administration had sought asylum. They milled outside the Dominican embassy shouting insults at Pérez Jiménez' friend, ousted Argentine Dictator. Juan PeroÓn. They stormed the Nicaraguan embassy, found a Security Police official and shot him. After a day and night of looting, burning and hunting down cops, the mob's blood rage began subsiding. Larrazabal's emergency junta helped satisfy the rioters by abolishing the Security Police, arresting 196 of its chief agents. The junta promised to try them on charges...
...doughnut shape) is a ring-shaped aluminum vacuum chamber with a 39-in. bore. The two vertical doughnuts linked into it are the iron cores of a transformer. When a small amount of deuterium gas is fed into the evacuated torus and a heavy electric current is shot through the transformer, an even heavier current (this is how transformers work) flows in a circle through the deuterium...
...duel between two agile giants: Bob Pettit (6 ft. 9 in.) of the home-town Hawks, the finest offensive player in the National Basketball Association, against Bill Russell (6 ft. 10 in.) of the Boston Celtics, the league's finest defender. Twice Pettit leaped for his jump shot. Twice Russell knocked the ball away. Pettit had a broken left hand protected by a heavy cast, but he managed to grab both rebounds. On his third try Pettit twisted and faked, swept clear for a split second and whished the ball home...
...years in a row, and in 1954 was the first-draft choice of the St. Louis Hawks. A handsome, lithe giant, Bob Pettit soon found that the pros play their own rugged brand of ball, but he survived the rattling rites of passage. On offense, his soft, floating jump shot is a model for the league. On defense, he has tactics for every player, e.g., against Cincinnati he presses hook-shooting Clyde Lovellette, but he lies back for the dribbling of Maurice Stokes. In addition, Pettit's rubber-legged rebounding starts the Hawks hustling on their fast break...
...mere presence would banish trouble and nurture prosperity. For a while, it seemed as if Young would repeat the success he had with the coal-hauling C. & 0. The Central went on a $2 annual dividend basis; costs were cut and income boosted. Central's stock shot up from 23 to 49½; Young confidently predicted that it would go to 100, and urged his friends to get in while the getting was good...