Word: shotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tremendously gripping five-line story of the three tame bear cubs from the Denver zoo, let loose in the Rockies, that sat up before hunters, begged them for peanuts and were shot by them [TIME, Nov. 3], should not have come under the headline "Americana" but "The World, 20 centuries after Christ." Apparently, killing animals (like killing people) is something as natural today as it had been 10,000 years...
...never take but one shot...
...roughness in the second statement has been more apparent. In the past four years in Beeville (pop. 7,000), a South Texas oil and cattle town, Sheriff Ennis has killed seven people with his .44 Colt revolver and his .45 submachine gun-not all, however, with one shot...
Captain Frenchy Brice of the Blue tallied the deciding goal when he dribbled through a couple of the Crimson defenders and crossed a shot into the corner of the net after two minutes of the second half...
While bachelors the world over mourned a lost shot at the British regency, the crowned heads of Cambridge assembled this morning in Adams House A-42, the residence of John Jay Hughes '48, to solemnize by wireless the marriage of Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten...