Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doubt & Drift. The question arose in 1881 when James Garfield was shot in the back by a deranged lawyer in the Washington railroad terminal and lay disabled for 80 days. During that time he performed only one official act, signing an extradition paper. The Cabinet tried to cope with such problems as post-office fraud scandals and sagging foreign relations, considered urging Vice President Chester Alan Arthur to take over the functions and authority of the President during his disability, but feared the legal implications. The Government drifted until Garfield died...
...elementary school, where three of his six children are students, to participate in the school's anniversary ceremonies. He made a brief speech, nibbled refreshments and tried his hand at the school shooting gallery. As he left the building and headed for his black Chrysler limousine, a pistol shot rang out. Then five hand grenades sizzled through the air and exploded almost at the President's feet. At the sound of the pistol shot an adjutant leaped to protect Sukarno's body with his own. Somehow, Sukarno escaped injury. But the grenades killed ten women, children...
...most of organized labor are still his, he cannot put down the revolt, has managed only to spur it with clumsy counterterrorism. Risking shoot-on-sight orders, Castro partisans are putting the torch to the budding sugar-cane crop on which the Cuban economy depends. The army said it shot four rebels in the cane fields last week. "Criminals!" shouts Batista now. "Communists...
...Pelayo Cuervo Navarro, a respected, nonviolent leader of the anti-Batista Orthodox Party ("About like killing Lyndon Johnson," say the rebels). A 15-year-old boy, suspected of bomb tossing, was castrated in Santiago and shipped home dead to his mother. When Rebel Frank Pais, a young schoolteacher, was shot by cops in Santiago, 80,000 Cubans marched to his funeral and closed down the town for seven days with a general strike...
Santa was not hit very hard, but he fell into the street as the fool dashed off. Several people gave chase, and one policeman was later quoted as saying, "It's a good thing he stopped because if he had gotten into the clear I'd have shot him for hitting Santa Claus...