Word: bullet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sept. 24, 1955, Stanislaw Lopuszynski walked into the office of a Warsaw doctor and complained of a pain in his head. He had good reason to complain: there was a bullet in his skull. After the slug was removed, police came to Lopuszynskrs bedside and patiently reconstructed his movements of the few previous days. Lopuszynski remembered driving near Cracow with a friend named Wladyslaw Mazurkiewicz after a night of heavy drinking. A loud explosion had suddenly awakened him from a snooze. "It's nothing," his companion had said. "I just wanted to scare you with a firecracker...
...going in the wrong direction. Then the hoodlum fled to a hideout in Youngstown, Ohio. In July Telvi returned to New York, but he was still "too hot." A few days later, in a lower East Side street, police found his body, apparently dumped from a car, with a bullet wound in the back of the head...
...telling them that if they would just go home everything would be forgiven, Widmark and Jane plunge into the jungle, pursued by the Nazis and their venomous wolf pack. The villains should have known better. Widmark kills the first Nazi with a homemade crossbow, the second with a lucky bullet, and the third by running him down in his own airplane. Jane has her story. Widmark can write again. They're in love. All that is needed is someone to wake the audience...
...married a woman as unlike his mother as the countryside can offer. In rapid succession, the father dies of a stroke after a drinking bout, Joe's lovable wife dies of TB after bearing two children, and Joe steps out to the barn and puts a bullet through his brain. Ella, a younger sister and her mother have moved to a nearby small town and taken Joe's infant sons with them. But tragedy has not softened mamma. Her nose comes out of the Old Testament only to sniff disapprovingly, and Ella's fun is limited...
...Angeles, Actor George Reeves, better known to millions of televiewing kiddies as Superman ("Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings at a single bound! Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman!!"), slapped a half-million-dollar suit on the O'Sullivan Building Materials Co. Reason : Superman Reeves, immovably safety-belted in his sports car, was irresistibly moved by an O'Sullivan truck last March, now claims he banged up his left side and arm so badly that...