Word: shotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...border between the Soviet and U.S. zones of Germany. They were fired upon from behind by Russians who had penetrated some 250 yards into the American zone. The U.S. patrol took cover until Lieut. William Linderose, commander of their squadron, reached the scene. The Russians fired again. Lieut. Linderose shot back three times. The Russians retired, leaving behind the dead body of a young comrade...
About a month after Meyer Tobiansky's disappearance, the Jewish government issued a curt announcement: Tobiansky had been convicted of treason by a Haganah court-martial and shot...
More to Come. Then there was 37-year-old Communist Renato Guttuso. His painting of a peasant wood chopper being shot in the back gave a broad hint of why Guttuso's Italian fellow Communists now object to his work. The poster-bright colors and the shapes which looked as if they had been hacked out by a hoe were reminiscent of Comrade Picasso's art, but like Picasso's they deviated from the "realism" the party presently admires. At the opposite extreme was 52-year-old Antonio Donghi's meticulous The Hunter, which...
...seen to fit all the parts of the story together. Furthermore, Los Angeles is still changing so rapidly that a month's passage can make facts & figures incorrect. This burgeoning growth was demonstrated by our experiences with the seven photographers who worked for eight weeks taking the color shots for the picture supplement accompanying the story. Having chosen a location for a specific shot or a panoramic view, they were likely to find, on returning to make the picture, that a skeleton framework or a new building had gone up, blocking the view...
...after she had stuffed his best suit up the chimney and snipped the bristles off his shaving brush. In Atlanta, a divorce plaintiff reportedly told the judge that he was already separated from his wife: "She fired at me five times, your honor. I started separating on the first shot. By the fifth shot, your honor, I had completely separated." In London, Raymond Steiner was granted a divorce after charging that his wife hit him with a milk bottle, smashed a tumbler on his head, knocked out one of his teeth with a plate, battered him with a shovel, yanked...