Word: bulletion
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...also been unusual among pontiffs in his embrace of a mystic spirituality centered on the cult of the Virgin Mary. He has been known to prostrate himself for hours at a time before statues of the Virgin, and believes she interceded to save him from an assassin's bullet fired on the anniversary of the appearance of Mary in apparition at Fatima. Once recovered from his wound, he made a pilgrimage to Fatima to give thanks, and the assassin's bullet is now welded into the crown of the statue of the Virgin at Fatima. His devotion to the Cult...
...reached the corner in front of the mayor's office, Fox heard a pop and felt a round hit his bulletproof chest plate. Fox returned fire on a man in a blue shirt and jeans in the middle of the street, then took cover behind a silver Oldsmobile. The bullet had hit the smoke grenade on Fox's vest, and gray plumes were spraying into his face. The squad opened up on the gunman. His RPK machine gun dropped to the ground, and he collapsed in the street. The wounded gunman was still alive and quietly repeating in Arabic...
...street to the mayor's office, where a medic did his best to save him, but within five minutes he was dead. The squad cleared the apartment building from which the shooter had fired but found nothing. Down the street, a 32-year-old woman had caught a bullet in the throat during the cross fire. After it was all over, Fox, 26, showed off the M-16 magazines on his vest that had exploded when the bullet hit them. The flak vest saved his life. Inside his breast pocket, the picture he keeps of his daughter Amanda, 4, survived...
ACHUTHAN: The magic bullet that some are holding their breath for is a strong rebound in the economy that overwhelms all this. And that is probably less likely because of the structural changes...
...signed the historic mutual recognition agreement at the White House with the Palestinian secular leadership. The late Rabin was killed just as he was about to realize his dream of securing a strong and stable state living peacefully alongside his Palestinian neighbors as equals. The fact that the bullet that ended his life shattered the chances for his dream to succeed make his death all the more tragic...