Word: bulleting
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...banks are so open and available, it's an invitation to robbery. They have been seriously negligent in construction and design." For instance, bullet-resistant "bandit barriers," common in other large cities, are scarce in mellow Los Angeles...
...back to defenseman Nowel Catterall, slapshot, a great kick save. Less than a minute later, a slapper by Danny Wurst, and a rare rebound try, by left-wing John Deasey, before Harvard's Rob Ohno carried it out of the zone. A half-minute later, one more Taglianetti bullet...
...departed dramatically from the official description. According to both versions, Galman never got within pointblank range behind Aquino as military wit nesses had claimed. Moreover, Galman had not been pushed off balance by one of Aquino's escorts and then shot - rather, he "was knocked down by a bullet as he held a gun with two hands over his head." Though the TV report was not aired in the Philippines, and is not admissible as official testimony, it received coverage in Manila newspapers. Lawyers acting on behalf of the AVSECOM troopers involved promptly filed a $350,000 criminal libel...
...debilitating illness, his failure to appear would have far less meaning. Few things underline the difference between the U.S. and Soviet political systems so strikingly as the contrast between the regular, detailed medical bulletins the White House issued after Reagan was hit by a would-be assassin's bullet in March 1981 and the current statements by Kremlin officials to an unbelieving world that Andropov's ailment is nothing more than "a severe cold...
...recounted his odyssey in Homage to Catalonia (1938). He joined a local militia unit and marched into trouble. Franco's troops fired at him, as expected; they were the enemy. But while recuperating from a bullet wound in the throat, Orwell learned that Communists in the Spanish government had outlawed the loose alliance of radicals he had joined in the struggle against Franco. The independent workers' stronghold in Barcelona was not, apparently, what Madrid or Moscow had in mind. Suddenly Orwell and his colleagues-at-arms were being called fascists, Franco's hired killers, by the Communist...