Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reprimanded by his commanding officer, Draftee José García Macías, 20, shot at him four times. When the officer Captain Galo Quevedo dropped to the ground, García concluded he had killed the captain and committed suicide. The officer arose unharmed. But next day when Quevedo went to García's funeral, the mourners turned into a mob chased him to the officers' club, besieged him with guns handed them by draftees. After an eight-hour battle, Quevedo staggered out, clothes aflame. He was shot down and his body was dragged through...
...lows. The 4 x 110 relay should go to the Americans. Either Blodgett or Yale freshman Oakley Andrews should easily win the pole vault, since Cambridge's Stuart Downhill, the best Englishman, has done only 12 ft., 5 1/2 in. Bill Markle of Yale should finish first in the shot put and his teammate Mike Pyle is the discus choice. All four high jumpers, Patrick MacKenzie and Peter Jackson of Cambridge and John deKiewiet and Marty Beckwith of Harvard are right around the 6 ft., 3 in. level, but deKiewiet is the most consistent...
...dreary Fall of 1930, midway between Wall Street's Great Crash and Roosevelt's Presidential campaign, 897 young men arrived in Cambridge for Freshman Registration--Harvard's Class of '34. On that day, September 19, bootleggers shot and killed a Federal revenue agent in a New Jersey brewery, Einstein submitted a paper on "Theory of Space Conceptions with Riemanian Metrics and Extended Parallelism," and U.S. Steel closed the market with...
...many gifts to the province. Facing the local press on the eve of his 80th birthday, Journalist Beaverbrook parried questions with professional skill, along the way paid bittersweet tribute to a transatlantic competitor. Asked by a newshound what he regards as his greatest achievement in publishing, His Lordship shot back: "Reading the 145 pages of the New York Times Sunday edition in one sitting, through and through, every word...
Whereas T.R. made his battle name in one slamming charge, Ted had a rough time in the trenches. He was gassed at Cantigny, shot in the leg at Ploisy; at war's end, a lieutenant-colonel, he staggered through the Meuse-Argonne offensive on two sticks...