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Word: shots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Likewise, Kennedy is helpless in bargaining for New York's tempting bloc of votes. Mayor Robert F. Wagner of New York City, leader of the state delegation, plans a shot at the second spot and also must remain quiet on Kennedy...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Catholicism and Kennedy | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

With a 52 ft., 3 1/4 in. performance, Crimson shot putter Sarge Nichols broke the University record by a quarter-inch, and established an indoor mark, a meet record, and a Briggs Cage standard as well. Key Kean soared 6 ft., 3 3/4 in. in the high jump to tie the Harvard record and set marks for University indoor performance, the Cage, and the meet...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Track Team Crushes B.U., 81-28; Doten, Nichols Set New Standards | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

...first man shot into space must have a good chance of getting down alive One necessary precaution is some way saving him in case the launching rocket misbehaves soon after leaving the ground. Project Mercury, the National Aeronatics and Space Administration's man space program, plans to accomplish by a rocket-pushed escape device, signed to blast man and capsule free. I week NASA tested this mechanism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sam Got Down | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...dialogue awakened cafe scents of strong smoke, dry cognac and refracted thought ("Suppose you die and find out that the dead are only the living playing at being dead")And the story of an intellectual mamma's boy Communist up against a tough, cynical but gallant revolutionary was shot through with Marxist analysis. With such qualities Jean-Paul Sartre's Crime of Passion seemed an unlikely play for TV. But viewers in the New York area saw it last week, in a full-length and absorbing production, well acted by a cast that included Claude Dauphin and Betsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Waking Them Up at Night | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...moved up to the varsity. Last week the Big Ten finally got its first look at the most impressive basketball prospect since "The Stilt" himself: Sophomore Jerry ("Big Luke"), Lucas, 19, a solemn, smoothly muscled (6 ft. 7½ in., 228 Ibs.) youngster with a feather-soft hook shot in either hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Luke | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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