Word: shotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Andy Hintz coming downstairs from the third floor. Squint's gun clicked and missed. Then the Cockeye coolly pumped five slugs into Andy Hintz's cheek, chest and belly. Hintz staggered back into the apartment. "Maisie, I'm dying," he gasped at his wife. "Johnny Dunn shot me." Andy Hintz hung on to life long enough to see Dunn brought before him in the hospital and to identify him. He tried to pull up his pajama jacket and show Dunn the holes in his body. "You know what these are, too, don't you?" he rasped...
...been held up three times: for $4,090 last October; $1,750 the next month; $1,917 in January. The third time, a customer was shot in the hip when the gun went off in a nervous bank-robber's hand. Each time the robbers were captured and speedily bustled off to prison; the police recovered $2,817 of the loot, and insurance made up the rest-but the stickups made a deep impression on the bankers...
Paraguay had its sixth coup in 13 months. Without firing a shot, the army kicked General Raimundo Rolón out of the presidency and supplanted him with Education Minister Felipe Molas López, a dentist...
Yale's Jim Fuchs should win the shot and may also wind up first in the dash. George Wade, another Yale man, took the IC4-A mile in 4:13, which will be pretty hard for anyone to beat today, although Princeton's Ronald Wittreich ought to press him. Dartmouth looks good for the cross country, with the 1948 champion, Stan Waterman, and Penn's Jeff Kirk, a member of last year's Olympic team, will probably set the pace over the hurdles...
...pound weight throw, 1:30 p.m. Broad jump, 4:30 p.m. 16-pound shot...