Word: bazooka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Catching was Park's big question mark last spring, and if senior Steve Joyce (.200) can't produce, he'll have two freshmen pushing him for the job. Joe Wark, of the bazooka arm, and Chuck Marshall will both be watched eagerly in Florida next week. "Both are good athletes, and I think Marshall can do some hitting for us," Park said...
Like in W.W. II guys used the Ml, a. Browning automatic rifle, grenades, some machine guns and a bazooka to knock out tanks, if they were close enough. Like 20 ft., our drill instructor said. That's sort of a joke. Well, the M-16 is a lot easier to handle than the Ml, and it can be used after dark. It's got a night scope that can pick up targets a mile away using infra-red light. And you should see what we have instead of the old bazooka. First there...
...American couple scoffingly laughed in reply and dismissed it all as nonsense. Clearly satisfied by the Americans' answer-and equally clearly unsurprised by it-President Amin then took us off in his British-made Range Rover for a personally conducted tour of the still bullet-and bazooka-shattered section of Entebbe airport, where Israeli troops last July staged their stunningly successful raid to rescue hijack hostages from pro-Palestinian kidnapers...
There were plenty of cameras too. The cheezeweeze type as well as bigger bazooka models would be filling both public and private scrapbooks. Once again I felt self-conscious with the "instant" history machine around my neck...
...extended gunfight and hide-and-seek game the only survivors are Harry and the Mayor, a pompous, self-serving fool. As he dusts himself off after his brushes with death, the Mayor promises Harry that "There will be a letter of commendation in this for you." Harry drops the bazooka with which he has dispatched the last kidnapper and walks ever so slowly back to the side of his fallen partner. The moral: even though excessive violence did save hizzoner and finish off the kidnappers, the death of Inspector Moore and other innocents reveals the fact that violence by nature...