Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowd of children outside a Stockton, Calif., elementary school, killing five students and wounding 29 others and one teacher before dispatching himself with a pistol, he set off a national wave of horror. If tots playing innocently in a schoolyard at recess are no longer safe from heavily armed criminals and lunatics, who is? Many citizens concluded that no one is, and some on the West Coast resolved to take action. Their solution: to arm themselves for survival in a world seemingly gone...
...trade is not significantly reduced, they think, the inner-city shoot-outs will rage on and contribute to the impression (not entirely justified in light of slight overall declines in the national crime rate) of a rising tide of violent crime that has driven so many peaceful citizens to arm themselves. On the practical side, writing a definition of paramilitary weapons that would distinguish them from some types of semiautomatic hunting rifles is no easy...
...During the Tet offensive in Saigon, the police chief's arm in profile that draws a straight line through his trigger finger and by the leap of the bullet into the fear-rigid Viet Cong's brain: a crisp extinction. The weird surprise of death, the pop into non-being. In the TV version, the man falls like a short tree and his head pours neat but urgent blood upon the street, as from a vial...
...have spent months responding to commission inquiries, raising objections and gathering evidence to back their views. Now MCAD must sort out the information and decide whether it has jurisdiction over the case and how it should rule. The state judicial body has given the case to its legal arm to review, according to spokesperson Judith K. Wright...
Specifically, academics must evaluate the effectiveness of Reagan's "peace through strength" philosophy--which led him to beef up defense and to arm "freedom fighters" around the world...