Word: shotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the Portrait. In the Defense Ministry, stubby Pérez Jiménez strode from telephone to telephone like an animated fireplug, gushing orders. The reports were soon in: every garrison in the country had supported Chief of Staff Pérez; hardly a shot had been fired...
...stealing a .30-30 rifle from an unlocked car. Then they broke into a truck, stole cigarettes. Thus equipped, they headed out of town, hid in a ditch, and waited. Soon a car came along. One of the boys, masked with a handkerchief, sprang up, fired a warning shot. The car did not halt. There was another shot, a scream from the car, a slithering to a stop. Farmer James Millar Watson, 62, had been mortally wounded. A week later, when one of the boys confessed, police took them to jail...
This week Rank's Religious Films Ltd. unveiled a new production called Belshazzar's Feast, and a new star - the Rt. Rev. Christopher Maude Chavasse, bishop of Rochester. The film opens with a shot of the bishop preaching. As the sermon unfolds, screen stills dramatize the story -from the feast, through the handwriting on the wall, to Daniel's denunciation...
Belshazzar is an experiment which Rank thought up himself: a 15-minute illustrated sermon designed as a shot in the arm for congregations being slowly droned to death by uninspired parsons. If it is a success, it will be followed by other shorts, starring distinguished preachers...
Tough little Willie Bioff, big-shot labor racketeer, was testifying. "We had about 20 percent of Hollywood when we got in trouble. If we hadn't got loused up we'd of had 50 percent. I had Hollywood dancin' to my tune." Willie's compelling tune was extortion; the insistent drumbeat in the background was the threat of physical violence. Studio employees and motion-picture-machine operators joined his labor union-or else. Hollywood studio czars chipped in millions to stop the music -and keep their studios running. What finally "loused up" Willie...