Word: shotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...direct ratio to the generosity of the tips Madame has received at rent-collecting time, at New Year's and for special services. Even the Paris police call on her for information. During the war the Resistance used the concierge as a perfectly positioned spy. Allied airmen shot down over France were passed safely across Paris from one concierge to another till they found a chance to escape...
Suddenly a dark bay colt came charging down the center of the track. The devil's-red silks on his jockey were Calumet's. Ben Jones's long shot, at 16 to 1, caught tired Capot inside the Sixteenth Pole, and won by three lengths. With a pace-forcing assist from Capot, Ponder had won the Kentucky Derby in much the same way his sire, Pensive, had won it five years before-and in identical time...
...Force's planes and weapons, General Joseph T. McNarney, Chief of the Air Materiel Command, backed his colleagues' views, but he added a note of caution. In the 1930s, he recalled in an interview, airmen had the same notion, but the supposedly invulnerable bombers got badly shot up by fighters early in World...
Tootell won both the discus and shot-put as the Crimson swept both events. Jeff's distances were 145 feet 9 1/2 inches and 47 feet 2 3/4 inches, respectively...
...individual players, too, were individually brilliant. One man scored with a neat over-the-shoulder shot, (which is roughly equivalent to shooting a basket with your back to the basket...