Word: bulleting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soon it was full combat between police and snipers in the hall. Some 500 police stormed the dormitory, pouring more than 3,000 rounds of shotgun and carbine fire into the building. Officer Dale Dugger, 32, took a bullet wound in the cheek. Patrolman Louis Kuba, 25, was hit in the forehead and died six hours later. "It looked like the Alamo," said one policeman. Somehow, only one student was wounded. After the cops had raged through the dormitory, virtually all of its 144 rooms were wrecked-TV sets kicked in, clothes destroyed and even the housemother's sewing...
Marines at the artillery base at Gio Linh, about five miles south of the DMZ, witnessed the first successful deployment of SAM missiles in the area. Looking like a giant tracer bullet against the night sky, one Russian missile soared up, its firetail swishing as it chased a Marine A-4 Skyhawk maneuvering violently to escape. A sudden fireball erupted as the SAM hit its target. The use of SAMs along the DMZ could curtail the now frequent use of B-52 bombers along the much-buffeted buffer zone. The threat of SAMs has kept the less maneuverable eight-engine...
...found days later on a dead Red. Kirby, who was carrying only a flare pistol, escaped by blasting a skirmisher between the eyes with his last flare. One of his buddies survived by playing dead. It was not surprising that the deception fooled the enemy troops: a Red bullet had torn through his left ear and out his nose...
...than candid, Leslie Uggams and Robert Hooks perform with unblemished, infectiously likable honesty. Apart from being lovely to look at, Uggams has a shy sly smile that burgles the theater house. She can cradle a song with her voice or rifle it toward the night sky like a tracer bullet. At 23, she is a Broadway find with a future...
...that was used over loudspeakers to break the German resistance: "Panzer grenadiers of the 24th, we shall not be south of Voronezh the day after tomorrow as your leaders have assured you. Save your bread, your ammunition and your gasoline. The luckiest will be those who have kept a bullet to blow their brains out." After also relaying information about such things as the July 20 plot against Hitler and the development of the V-1 and V-2 rockets, Roessler ultimately became the prey of the Gestapo, which stumbled onto his existence by intercepting his radio messages to Moscow...