Word: shotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shoot." Within a year Kidnaper Hauptmann was arrested (though the credit belonged more to local police and T-men than the FBI). Pretty Boy Floyd was cornered on an Ohio farm and riddled with FBI bullets. Baby Face Nelson was trapped and shot down in a Chicago suburb. In January 1935 Ma and Fred Barker were killed after a two-hour FBI siege in the little Florida town of Oklawaha...
...half hours later, a 31-year-old Pennsylvania airport manager named George Humphrey got the fright of his life as he putted along near Fort Dix, N.J. in a Piper Super-Cruiser. A Navy F6F Hellcat fighter came unexpectedly up beneath him and shot out ahead of his plane, giving him "a terrific prop wash...
...first turn, Jockey Dave Gorman moved Air Lift up on the outside from fifth to third. He was gaining on the leaders, when he broke stride, began to weave. A watcher near the rail had heard something that sounded like a pistol shot. Jockey Gorman slowed the colt down and slipped off. When he saw blood running from Air Lift's left foreleg, Gorman wept...
...green horse van, Air Lift was taken back to the stables. The track veterinarian found two compound fractures of the ankle, deadened the pain with a double shot of novocaine. Grooms sponged the colt off and gave him some hay to munch. New York Sun Sportwriter W. (for Wilford) C. Heinz, who turned in the best story of anybody that day, reported the dialogue that came next...
People seemed to have decided that the U.S. economy was in for another shot of inflation, with the Administration committed to a program of deficit financing. Some Wall Street professionals, on the other hand, were betting against it. In July, the New York Stock Exchange's short interest (i.e., the number of shares sold short by pessimists in expectation of falling prices) hit a 16-year peak of 1,844,313 shares...