Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along with numerous other men I know who served in Japan or are still serving there, was thoroughly disgusted and shocked at the way American women and children conducted themselves on foreign soil. I have seen women practically naked running the streets half "shot" and fully "shot," have heard them use language that a 30-year sergeant would blush to hear...
...drive future U.S. satellite instruments and to operate orbiting TV scanners that will transmit unclouded images of the solar system. Last week, with a wink at Christopher Columbus and George Eastman, Explorer VI televised back a crude image of smudges and blurs-the first picture of the earth ever shot from so far out in space...
Through the shot and shell of 2½ years of pounding by the McClellan committee, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters' President James Riddle Hoffa held hardest to his No. 1 point: Hoffa is an innocent victim whose only crime is that he gets good wages and working conditions for his "boys." Last week, in a special report to the Senate, the McClellan committee took dead aim on Hoffa's benevolence to the boys. Said the committee: "In the history of this country it would be hard to find a labor leader who has so shamelessly abused his members...
...sight, abolished pushcarts, opened sheltered markets, dispatched dredges to the silted canals, bought 60 new garbage trucks for Bangkok, ordered pedicabs off the street. When a rash of fires broke out in the business district last winter. Sarit raced to the scene one night, ordered four Chinese merchants shot on the spot-a brutal but effective reminder that the annual custom of burning down shops to collect insurance for the Chinese New Year celebration was thenceforth taboo. Fortnight ago. prowling La Guardia-style about the streets of Bangkok in his chauffeur-driven car, Sarit drew up behind an automobile...
...Explorer VI, shot into orbit from Cape Canaveral last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), was the most sophisticated satellite the U.S. has launched. Rigid arms like paddle wheels, whirling through the sunlight of empty space, were its most spectacular feature, designed to test the possibility of capturing enough energy from the sun to send messages across millions of miles (TIME, April 27). Such a durable source of energy is crucial to proposed space probes to Venus or farther planets, for there is little point in sending out space probes unless their transmitters can send information back to earth...