Word: shotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police state marching west across Europe, south across Asia, was embodied in the person of Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, Marshal of the Soviet Union (he never fired a shot), Hero of Socialist Labor (he never swung a pick), Member of the Politburo. He is a steady, quiet type who .has a wife, two children and a suburban villa to which he commutes in a Packard -with the shades always drawn...
...governess, a butcher's boy and a curate," said Pickthorn, "who got in the way of a gunman after he committed a murder recently; and there was Mr. Fisk, the Battersea bricklayer, who seized a gunman . . . and held on to him, though [Mr. Fisk] was almost shot to pieces. These are the real defenders of our liberty...
Dzerzhinsky yearned to correct the faults of his fellow man. One of the first people he corrected was the head of the Revolutionary Military Committee for Combating Alcoholism & Banditry, who wandered into Dzerzhinsky's office one night, drunk. Dzerzhinsky had him shot...
...Lenin passed a note to Dzerzhinsky "How many vicious counter-revolutionaries are there in our prisons?" Dzeizhinsky's scribbled reply was: "Abou: fifteen hundred." Lenin nodded, made a cross on the note, and returned it to Dzerzhinsky. That night, on Dzerzhinsky's order, all 1,500 were shot. It turned out to be a mistake. As Lenin's secretary explained later: "Vladimir Ilyich usually puts a cross on a memorandum to indicate he has noted the contents...
Sophomore center Larry Ward handled the entire scoring with a shot past the prostrate Burns at 12.18 of the second period after a prolonged scrimmage in front of the nets. But Crimson Captain Jack Lavalle was the real hero of the occasion, stopping a rain of fire that made the Battle of the Bulge look like a minor skirmish...