Word: shotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family Album. In London, Angus Harper declared that he had laced the family butter with slug poison, just to "annoy" his in-laws. In Newhall, Calif., Mrs. Nettie M. Weismeyer said that one reason why she had shot her husband was that he used bad grammar...
Reuther recalled the things he had told his wife in the moments after he was shot. "I told her we knew a long time ago that the labor movement is no bed of roses, and that we had to expect something like this. I told her that I wanted her to promise she'd stay in this fight if they really had finished me. She agreed, and after that I felt all right...
...Governor Earl arrived on the wooden stadium stage, 211 newly appointed colonels were on hand to applaud him. Said the governor: "If anybody else wants to be a colonel, just let me know." When a 19-gun salute banged out in his honor he cracked: "I hope nobody got shot." The crowd roared. It cheered again when he paraphrased brother Huey: "I hope to see this a state where every man is a king and every lady a queen, but no one is wearing the crown...
...under a cone of white light from the searchlights of her destroyer escorts. Precisely at midnight (the deadline for Britain's mandate over Palestine), she passed the three-mile limit of Palestine's territorial waters. From Royal Navy headquarters atop Mount Carmel a flare shot up, arched slowly, and fell flaming among the tall dark cypresses on the mountain slope. A few British troops would remain in Palestine until August. But the British mandate had ended...
...Navy fighter and dive-bomber pilot in the war, he had been shot down in the Solomons, hospitalized for a year. As a newsman, he had been around: to Alaska, Shanghai and New York Herald Tribune posts in Washington and Paris...