Word: shotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Christmas Week in the Holy Land, shepherds went armed, travelers to Bethlehem were shot at, and wise men stayed indoors. An atmosphere of fear, gloom and tense anxiety thickened. Man is against man, and over all Palestine there has been bitter fighting...
...nomination for Man of the Year is Mohandas Gandhi. In a warring world, here is a man of peace, whose mastery of body by mind has enabled him to conquer the British .Empire without firing a shot...
...Asiatic blood were arrested and accused of the crime. When they were let out on bail, Thalia Massie's Kentucky-born, Annapolis-bred husband, with the help of Thalia's socialite mother and two enlisted men, kidnaped one of them-a massive man named Joe Kahahawai. They shot him and drained out his blood in a water-filled bathtub...
...still a matter of conjecture. He was never seen again. By some accounts the fascists took him to the village of Fuente-vaqueros, where he had been born 37 years before, and there at daybreak, when the first light was glittering on the tiles and window panes of Andalusia, shot him. He had written about this hour in his country...
...news traveled swiftly along London's Grub Street. Charles Dickens' illustrator, Robert Seymour, had shot himself after finishing only half his sketches for the Pickwick Papers. A few days later, with some sample sketches tucked hopefully under his arm, a stout, bumbling, bemonocled young man called on Mr. Dickens to ask for the vacant job. The novelist took a quick look at the sketches and shook his head. "Had it not been for that unfortunate blight which came over my artistical existence," declared William Makepeace Thackeray many years later, "I should have tried to be not a writer...