Word: shotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tanker Sinco spent three wild days keeping their vessel afloat after sea water accidentally flooded her hull and stopped her engines off the stormy Carolina capes. A tug finally towed the foundering vessel safely into Charleston, S.C., where the crew knelt thankfully on her deck-and shot craps until the cook got a hot meal together...
Bombs soared into the air and burst a thousand feet above the harbor into terrible yellow blossom. Shrapnel peppered the brick walls of the warehouses, plowed the planks off the pier, and rained down upon the hissing waters. Shells shot hither & thither, exploding under the touch of the terrific heat and shooting their missiles at random. Some of the shrapnel shells fell even in Manhattan. On the pier arose a white glare as of a million mercury-vapor lights...
...least three meet records will be jeopardized Monday in the Stadium. Bannister and Wade will be shooting for the 4:12.6 mile mark Jack Lovelock established in 1933; Jim Fuchs seems sure to set a new record in the 16-pound shot; and George Appel may break the pole vault record...
...ripe age for big-league golf, Samuel Jackson Snead was burning up the courses like a Virginia grass fire. He shot hard and accurate golf to win the Masters Tournament in April, and he was red-hot last week as he stroked his way to the P.G.A. championship at Richmond's Hermitage Country Club. In between times, Sam was warm enough to scoop up seven other prizes, boosting his winnings for the year to $12,610, tops in the trade. Unless something put the fire out he figured to have the biggest of all tournaments, this week...
...many a year, the electric-power industry has proved a prime target for the Administration and the proponents of public power. Last week, as 3,000 delegates of the Edison Electric Institute gathered at their annual convention in Atlantic City, the target shot back, with a hot, well-placed barrage. One of the heaviest salvos was fired by General Electric's Charles E. Wilson, boss of the biggest U.S. electrical equipment company, and thus sensitive to attacks on "bigness." The industry, said he, was being attacked in many cases simply because...