Word: bullet
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...spine. Earl returned a single shot. The boy fell dead. "After I shot the kid, I rocked him in my arms," says Earl, his voice cracking. "I took something I can never give back. I went home three days later, saw my kids and burst out crying." The bullet still rests against his spine. "I figure if somebody had taken some time to spend with that kid, showed they really, really cared, this wouldn't have happened. You can't save everybody, but if you save 1 out of 200, then you've accomplished something. That's my whole purpose...
...took groups of Malcolm X students from the fifth and sixth grades to the District of Columbia morgue and pulled back the sheets on the bodies to show the children the ultimate product of violence and drugs. On one visit, the children viewed a corpse riddled with 11 bullet holes. The victim's mouth had been sealed with duct tape. One of the children in the group recognized the body as someone from the neighborhood...
...rises this morning from the carcass of Sarajevo. The city has a clinging, ragged aura about it. Fog seeps through shattered buildings and seems to puff through the bullet holes in windows...
...look up wildly at the hills and imagine the snipers squinting through cross hairs. You wonder what they may be able to see through the mist. You pause to decode the physics: the sound you hear has been taking its time, traveling a lot more slowly than the bullet itself...
...dodged a bullet tonight, gentlemen," Harvard Coach Ronn Tomassoni told doughnut-stuffed scribes after the game. "We were awful lucky to escape with a win. Colgate controlled this game from the middle of the second period...