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Word: bazooka (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suburb of the Paraguayan capital of Asunción. The limousine, followed by a backup car carrying three bodyguards, had traveled a mere five blocks when a Chevrolet pickup truck pulled up alongside, and unleashed a hail of automatic rifle fire. As the bodyguards returned the fire, a bazooka rocket, launched from the porch of a nearby house, hit the Somoza limousine broadside, tearing away the roof. The dictator, along with his companions, was killed instantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Sudden Death in Asunci | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

DIED. General Anastasio Somoza Debayle, 54, Nicaragua's longtime strongman who was ousted last year; of bazooka and machine-gun fire after leaving his exile villa; in Asunción, Paraguay (see WORLD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 29, 1980 | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

...right, I've got my notes on the meeting right here," replied Carter, pulling a Bazooka buble gum wrapper from his pocket. "Ben was wearing green golf pants and a yellow shirt open at the neck, and I had on my jogging outfit. Ben told me I shouldn't ask him about the investigation or why he thought it was a good idea for Billy to register as a Libyan agent. So I didn...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: All in the Family | 8/5/1980 | See Source »

...SELECTIVE Service System (SSS), the agency that wants to register you and me for the draft resides in a bazooka-ammo red brick building near Chinatown in the nation's capitol. Actually, the SSS only takes up about three-quarters of the building's fifth floor, but from all of the yelling out in the streets, you'd think these people owned half the town...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Administering Armageddon | 4/3/1980 | See Source »

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