Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dope Sheet. In Toronto, Ont., a Telegram racing expert picked Joker's Hill to show in the featured fifth at Old Woodbine track, had some explaining to do when Joker's Hill never ran, turned out to have bowed a tendon, was shot a week before the race...
...that so far its launching site has been Capitol Hill in Washington, and that nose cones from the Missouri Fury have been recovered regularly at points no more distant than the Pentagon and the White House. Dr. H. S. Truman of Independence, sole architect of the remarkably successful Hot-Shot Harry missile of 1948, heads the small research and development team at work on the Missouri Fury. One desirable feature of the Fury is the fact that it is somewhat quieter than other models in the Democratic family of missiles...
...their victim. When school let out. the hoodlums swarmed around John Guzman, member of the enemy Valiant Crowns gang, and started shoving and punching him. Guzman fled back toward the door of the school building. Royal Knight Edward Peres, 16, drew out a shortened. .22-cal. rifle and shot him in the chest...
...rumors that Augie was a finger man. In 1957, he and Frank Costello had a couple of friendly drinks together at the Waldorf just eleven hours before a bullet parted Costello's thinning hair and almost put him permanently out of circulation. Five months later, Albert Anastasia was shot down in a barber's chair-just a few days after dining with Pisano...
...rapidly, the pilot, Air Vice Marshal Harold John Maguire, spotted a green and empty sports field and prepared to belly-land on it. As the Oxo and Old Hollingtonian cricket teams, which had just retired to the pavilion for their half-time tea, watched in amazement, the stricken Spitfire shot in, flaps down and wheels up, narrowly missed an oak tree, flattened on the grass and skidded 60 yards to a stop in the outfield...