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Word: bulleting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...room receives an intensive barrage from outside: the street gang is equipped with silencers stolen from a government arsenal, and the only sound, as we watch the room being ripped apart, is the quiet clicking and crumpling of glass and venetian blinds, concluding with a wittily timed puff of bullet-scattered papers off a disheveled desk...

Author: By Larry Shapiro, | Title: Nuts and Jolts | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

During an intermission a white girl drew comment from blacks belonging to a youth gang called the Blue Coats. Their white counterparts, the Family, came to her rescue. In the shooting that followed, one of the Family, Marvin Kenneth Eller, 19, was killed by a .22-cal. bullet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Flick of Violence | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...competitive Japanese correspondents based in Peking and Hanoi, including those of Communist organs favored by the regimes. Isao Takano, 35, Hanoi correspondent for Japan's Communist daily Akahata, became the war's first press casualty last week when he was killed by a Chinese sniper's bullet at Lang Son. The Kyodo news agency first reported the original invasion. Tokyo's military sources also proved useful in tracing Soviet naval movements in the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Through a Glass, Darkly | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

Faster than a speeding bullet? Not likely, when Superman's bright blue leotard bulged from a paunch that was bound to blunt the man of steel's airstream in flight. Actually Texas Senator John Tower, 53, never did get airborne, but otherwise the conservative Republican performed nobly in a Superman spoof mounted in Dallas by a drinking club of politicians and newsmen. "I was born to play Superman," acknowledged Tower, flipping his cape for dramatic emphasis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 12, 1979 | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...hijacking. The FBI believes he was murdered in a dispute among the thieves over distribution of the Lufthansa loot. New York police are not so sure he is dead. Also thought to be a victim of the gang's dissension was Steven Edwards, 31, an ex-convict whose bullet-riddled body was found in his New York apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cracking the Lufthansa Caper | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

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