Word: bulleting
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...astonishment of his Puerto Rican apprentice, he fumbles through business in a trance, unaccountably appraising brass as gold. In one such August, the pawnshop is robbed; the apprentice-whom Author Wallant. with a disturbingly heavy hand, has called Jesus Ortiz-steps in front of a bullet meant for Sol. In a torrent of long-restrained tears, Sol Nazerman begins the escape from his prison of self...
...left to the discretion of the lawmen on the scene. Through the long hours, the embattled hijackers argued with their captives. At last, getting nowhere, Leon Bearden said that he intended to take off in the 707, come what may. And to emphasize his determination, he fired a bullet between Second Officer Simmons' feet. "Things are getting desperate on this plane," Rickards told the tower. "We've got to have fuel." The purposefully dawdling ground crew quickly filled the tanks, unhooked the line. As the big engines screamed and the plane taxied toward a takeoff, a motorcade...
...stranger as he asked to borrow Boothroyd's flashlight. Then he produced a rifle and demanded money. Boothroyd threw his wallet-containing $250-to the ground, but Mrs. Sullivan angrily snatched up the wallet and turned to walk away. The bandit fired, and Mrs. Sullivan fell with a bullet in her brain. Then the murderer shot Boothroyd twice in the face. In the Volkswagen, Denise Sullivan tried to drive off. But the bandit jumped into his dusty sedan, ran Denise off the road, and pulled her into his car. At week's end, FBI agents cornered a suspect...
...more widely accepted version: that he got hit by a stray bullet fired by one side or the other during the Cuban invasion...
...third eye, he explains, is the result of a bullet he caught while fighting in Spain ("Now there's a bit of plastic set into my poor skull"). Jackman and his men "might have commenced full of humanitarian sentimentality. And then, perhaps, demon ideology, with its imperatives and its inexorable dogmas, its sobersided caricature of religion, had swept them on to horrors." They are forever talking "of the sufferings of the working classes," but people in general are merely "that scum...