Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Honolulu, alone. Fernandez, he explained, had stayed on with an old Arizona prospector, ashamed at his failure. But an unidentified informant told police that Ferreira had killed his partner. Questioned, Ferreira quickly confessed. During one of his arguments with Fernandez, he said, he had knocked his partner down, shot him in the head with a rifle. Complained Ferreira: "All he did was fast-draw, fast-draw-all the time...
...made up a sorry lot of delinquents, victims as well as products of their squalid environments. Collinsworth. an illiterate telephone lineman, is a chronic drunk, son of a sadist who beat him habitually throughout his childhood. Scarborough, an Air Force enlisted man, is an orphan whose mother was shot to death in a barroom brawl when he was seven and whose father committed suicide the same year. Stoutamire quit school after the eighth grade, has had a brush with juvenile authorities. Beagles is a high-school senior, the son of a truck driver and a waitress...
...whether to respond with heightened terrorism or to try political persuasion of its own. With fanfare this week, the rebels released a young Frenchwoman, Marie-José Serio, whose mother had made a direct appeal to the F.L.N.'s sense of humanity. But at the same time, they shot dead a captured Moslem whose sister-in-law, Rebahi Khebtani, is one of the three new Moslem women Deputies in the French Assembly. She was unaware of the shooting as she rose in the Assembly in Paris that evening, but her personal tragedy made her remarks all the more eloquent...
...Force brass in a submachine-gun target match, Britain's sporting Chief of Air Staff Sir Dermot Boyle sprayed much lead to little avail, wound up 21st in an eagle-eyed field of 22 officers. He took his crushing defeat stoically: "Either I'm a very bad shot or there's a great deal of insubordination in the air force...
...Douglas solution: small streams of air were diverted from the engine's compressors and shot downward and forward. The air jets hit the runway, blow away the converging air that would feed a vortex. No vortex forms, and indigestible objects stay on the ground...