Word: shotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Shot...
...team even boasts a coach, Dick Shaughnessey, known to some as the Izaak Walton of skeet shooting. Under Shaughnessey last spring, the team shot its way to a second in the National Telegraphic Intercollegiates...
...eminently vulnerable airplane. The letter also hinted that the awarding of the B-36 contracts had involved political skulduggery. Worth's letter was picked up by Congressman James Van Vandt, Pennsylvania, a Navy man himself, and aired before an investigating committee this summer. Most of its charges were neatly shot down by the B-36 men. And the Navy found that its operating budget was squeezing things to a point where some of the big Naval Shipyards; essential to the fleet's war mobilization plans, would have to close up shop...
...loudest cries of pain were heard in Britain itself. The government last week raised the price of nonferrous metals and of such humble objects as pots & pans. The first predictions of a 5% cost-of-liv-ing rise shot up to 10%. The trade unions were having Sir Stafford Cripps on the carpet, demanding wage boosts. The Tories charged that devaluation could have been avoided but for the Socialist government's mismanagement; Laborites replied that it was not so, asserted that they had devalued rather than cut Britain's welfare program and permit unemployment. Said one Labor leader...
...Negroes were killed after race rioting in Columbia's Mink Slide district (TIME, March 11, 1946). Caleb ("Picky Pie") Hill was shot to death by Georgia lynchers (TIME, June...