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Word: shots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about two seconds TV3 had followed its programing perfectly. Ponderously it lifted itself off the pad-one foot, two feet, three feet. For one blink of an eye it seemed to stand still. A tongue of orange flame shot out from beneath the rocket, darted downwind, then billowed up the right side of TV3 into a fireball 150 feet high. "There it goes! There is an explosion!" an observation pilot cried into his radio. "Black smoke is now over the entire area-We do not see the satellite rocket-We do not see the rocket that is carrying our satellite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Death of TV-3 | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...shot may be heard around the world but there are times when a dud is even louder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VANGUARD'S AFTERMATH: JEERS AND TEARS | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

Roosevelt boosters have given him more journalistic credit than he deserves. One has said that the CRIMSON was "dull reading until Franklin came along. He gave it a shot of modern journalism that raised its circulation--and the blood pressure of the faculty." And another has exclaimed: "The astounded college awoke. Gossip carried the news of the revived CRIMSON throughout the student body and town. Men who had never read the paper took fresh interest. Well! ...Hm! ...Well! Well!... So the dead have arisen! ...Say, that's an apt bit, and this is a scathing comment...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt at Harvard | 12/13/1957 | See Source »

Police have claimed that Thompson would have been shot if the officers at the scene had been able to clear the crowd. "This was not a gag," said Acting Chief Richard J. Linehan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon Prank Draws $35 Fine | 12/13/1957 | See Source »

...shot put, McCurdy has no one, as yet, besides Doty; but he is currently working hard with two or three burly newcomers to this muscle-flexing pasttime. The broad jump picture is a rather nebulous one; at the moment Liles appears the best of six or seven aspirants...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: McCurdy Says Harriers Face 'Challenge' | 12/13/1957 | See Source »

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