Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...logical next step in Premier Karim Kassem's squeeze on the Communists was to deprive them of the guns with which they might one day shoot their way to power. This he tried to do last week, ordering a three-year prison sentence and $450 fine for anyone caught with firearms in his possession. Doubtless many an illegal pistol remained hidden under mattresses, but at least Communist mobs would henceforth be discouraged from roaming the streets waving their weapons in open intimidation...
...easy-moving Neil McElroy, 54, got off to a dazzling start as Defense Secretary. Taking over from "Engine Charlie" Wilson in October 1957, five days after the first Soviet Sputnik soared into orbit, he gave the Army a prompt go-ahead to shoot its Jupiter-C into space while the Navy was still fumbling with its Vanguard. He ended the economy ban on overtime work in missile plants, lifted Wilson's numbing hold-down on spending for B-52 bombers, Strategic Air Command fuel, basic research. On orders from President Eisenhower, McElroy worked out and steered through Congress...
...Which to Shoot? What is her uncanny power? It seems that the lion was found by the warden as a cub, and Patricia named him King and reared him, feeding him from a bottle and sleeping with him in her crib. When he finally became too big, he was banished to the wilds. But King still plays dead on Patricia's command. He loves the warden, too, and will wrestle with him on invitation...
...Masai once held that a tribesman could not take a wife until he killed a lion, and Patricia eggs him on to fight King for her. The lion duly eviscerates the tribesman, but just as he is about to dispatch him, up runs the warden. Which to shoot? He hesitates for several paragraphs between his pledge to protect all animals and "an instinctive feeling of solidarity with [the man] rooted in the first dawn of human awareness...
Closed Season. In Dayton, police wrote a note of reminder: "Sacksteder's restaurant will, hereafter, have a man on duty all night to act as janitor and night watchman; his name is Bill Amos; please don't shoot Amos...