Word: shotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grundy in Politics. Here was the other side of appeasement's coin. Kiss 'em or kill 'em, but don't come to grips with reality. Don't let the troops in Greece fire a shot-somebody might get hit. Don't worry about essential oil supplies in the Middle East-somebody might make a profit. Don't get into the China war-the government is corrupt. Don't give Western Europe a military guarantee against Russia-it might have to be kept. Don't speak up for U.S. ideals of democracy...
...Premier Mauno Pekkala began packing for a trip to Moscow, others in Finland were also snapping their suitcase locks. Swarms of Baltic and Russian refugees swamped Helsinki's Swedish consulate seeking visas, and in their near-panic quest for hard currency the open market price of a dollar shot up from 700 Finn-marks to 1,000. Finland's Communist
...story the cops told later, one of the gunmen asked for a moment's halt, and everyone got out of the car. Then, the police solemnly reported, somebody jostled somebody else, and the three prisoners started to run. Then, in line with the traditional ley de fuga (shot while trying to escape), they were killed in their tracks...
...That old cinemusical shot of "the circular iron ladder backstage [with] the chorines descending...
...Elis showed fantastic accuracy with their floor shots from the start of the game, pulling off to a 24 to 8 lead after ten minutes. Meanwhile, the Crimson was missing everything, including free throws. In the first half Harvard sank only four of its 18 foul shot tries...