Word: shotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drunken hunting. Besides this year's high toll, Feast had another good reason: three years ago his 19-year-old son lost an eye in a field accident. Said Feast: "He was hunting with an expert, yet [the expert] got two pheasants and my boy with one shot...
Meantime, foreign correspondents in Paris received elegantly printed invitations asking them to a "cocktail de la paix" to be given the following evening, from 6 to 8,-in the offices of the Communist daily paper, L'Humanité. Eyebrows shot up, for it was the first time "L'Huma" had ever done anything like this. Few foreigners ever get past the guards at the entrance of the paper...
...battle on the Champs Elysees reached its worst phase just before nightfall. A gang of Communists surrounded a police car, tried to set fire to it. The gardes started shooting. Some fired in the air, but one or two shot blindly into the fog. By direct hit or ricochet, four men were wounded. Panic seized the Communists and they fled...
Shortly after the fourth period opened, Louria satisfied the dream of collegiate fullbacks by lefting in a goal on a penalty kick from 30 yards in front of the Blue goal. Three minutes later, Bill Dawson, the Crimson left inside, who is also a senior, blasted in a hard shot from the side...
Another reserved-seat show is the fine English technicolor film, "The Red Shoes" which includes some of the longest ballet sequences ever shot. Finally, for the humorists, are "Miss Tatlock's Millions" as zany as it sounds and Danny Kaye's "A Song is Born"--all about jazz, with Kaye clowning as usual, and Virginia Mayo looking beautiful. Of course there's always the Old Howard...