Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second shot, a conventional 65-ft.Thor, successfully ran its 1,600-mile flight, bringing to 36 the total of Thor rockets tested...
...this point, apparently on impulse, Shawaf decided to put into effect a revolt that was only half-formed in his mind. His fifth brigade, loyal to him, rounded up 300 Peace Partisans. He ordered the leader of the parading Communists, Kamil Kazanchi, a well-known Baghdad politico and lawyer, shot...
...water had stopped rising, and a small pocket of air remained at the roof of the car. This was the magic moment of the bubble-when the pressure on the inside of the car equaled that on the outside. Kliphuis slowly turned the door handle, which now opened easily, shot through the opening and surfaced. "You have to persuade the pupils to wait for the bubble and not panic," explained Teacher Herman Vos. "That's all there...
...unfreezing a frozen bank account of more than $900,000. "We are studying the case in order to execute him," said the Prime Minister. Next day one René Ray Rivero, an official of the Ministry for the Recovery of Stolen Property who was under suspicion, shot and killed himself at Havana's police headquarters. Waiting anxiously to hear their fate were hundreds of Ousted Dictator Fulgencio Batista's civilian government employees, now in jail on charges of stealing public funds or enriching themselves by "collaborating" with the Batista regime...
Banks have found the credit card a sure-fire way to drum up credit business (instead of taking a one-shot loan, the cardholder becomes a permanent credit customer). In the typical system used by Chase Manhattan Bank, the stores pay a fee of 6% or less on charge-card business, depending on volume. Cardholders get the service free if they pay their monthly bills on time; or they can pay in five monthly installments, with a 1% monthly charge on the unpaid balance...