Word: shotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government's campaign for Candidate Carmona predicts civil war if Mattos should win and circulates outlandish whispering-campaign stories, one of them to the effect that Mattos once became enraged when he was thrown from a horse, and ordered the animal shot. In a village near Lisbon, a truck dropped handbills which boasted that the government had brought electricity, a school, a cemetery to the district. In his dirt-floored stone house, an old man read the handbill-by the light of a kerosene lamp. Said he: "We've never lacked space to bury our dead...
...prices of other commodities tumbled (see The Economy), the price of wool kept going up & up. At Australian auctions a fortnight ago, fine wool which had sold in 1946 for around 65? a Ib. brought a record price of $2.42¼. Last week, at the Newcastle auctions, it shot up to $2.76¼, and in Tasmania superfine wool went up to $3.53. Reason: a complete change in the world wool supply...
...Shot putter Don Trimble, Hank Rood, 35-pound weight thrower, and the mile relay team composed of Dave Hamblett, A1 Ruby, Harvey Thayer, and Chuck Harwood all placed second. Pat McCormick, John Harrigan, and Arthur Lockett and Bill Lawrence took thirds in the 60-yard hurdles, high jump, and pole vault respectively. Fourth place went to John Cogan in the mile, Chuck Harwood in the 60-yard dash, George Williamson in the 1000-yard run, and Don Carter in the broadjump...
Freshmen runners were more successful. They beat Andover 62-37 and picked up nine of a possible 11 first places. 52 track and field men won in the 40-yard dash, the 300-yard dash, the 60-yard run, the 1000-yard run, the shot put, the weight throw, the broad jump, the high jump and the discuss throw...
...spite of its impressive victory, Mikkola is still worried about the freshman team's lack of manpower. "We need high jumpers, hurdlers, pole vaulters and shot putters. Sometimes our opposition automatically gets second and third because we only have one man to enter in an event. We can still use beginners," Mikola concluded...