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...that point eight FBI agents, who had been waiting outside, went into action. There was a spray of gunfire; Wayne Long fired back, injuring one of the FBI men. Then Long himself, after dashing for a block, fell to the ground wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Slight Case of Murder | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

Then, while he was in the neighborhood, the Senator fired a spray of buckshot over his shoulder at all renegade Communists. "It has become the fashion to lionize and extol the ex-Communist in America today," said he. "Ex-Communists are treated as heroes of the republic. They are rushed to forums from which to denounce good citizens who always opposed Communism, but refused to make merchandise of their patriotism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Cloak & the Dagger | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...Salisbury Plain, "creeping like a criminal," he says, to capture the call of the grass warbler. Badgered by such background noises as airplanes, trains, barking dogs and high winds, he has triumphantly recorded the moorland cry of the greenshank and the "singing" of the seal on the spray-splashed rocks off the Pembrokeshire coast. He is postponing his retirement at least until he can get on wax the elusive stone curlew and the long-tailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Wurz Debur | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

Weatherman Christie deprecated the role of Howell's silver iodide spray in the downpour by pointing out that light rain had started in the test area before the experiment began, and that the heaviest rainfall had been to the south--not to the north, where the chemical clouds had drifted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Howell Discounts Role in New York's Recent Rains | 4/22/1950 | See Source »

...about?" To show which kind of warships she was looking for, the Oregon broke out a Spanish flag. Joshua Slocum answered "No." He could not resist adding: "Let us keep together for mutual protection." The Oregon's only acknowledgment was to dip her flag three times to the Spray's own lowered flag, and to hurry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alone | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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