Word: bullets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With 10 minutes left to play and the score knotted, 1-1, unmarked B.C. striker Katie Connelly received the ball outside the penalty area to the left of Harvard goaltender Beth Reilly. The senior forward ripped a bullet into the upper right corner of the Crimson net to give the Eagles the lead for good...
...fate of the rest is well-known. Invading German armies found 4443 corpses in a mass grave in the Katyn forest, near Smolensk, USSR. Each victim had a bullet hole in the base of his skull. Each still wore his uniform, and each lay face-down over his fellow officers. Trees had been planted over the bodies...
...deer hunt provides a change from the routine hazards of farming. Accompanying Bauer and his friends is an anonymous character known as "the city man" -- almost certainly Rhodes himself -- who accidently discharges his rifle. The bullet passes through the windshield of a truck and the crown of the driver's cap before channeling into the roof of the cab. It is a chilling moment, one in which to give thanks for a tragedy luckily averted and thanks that Rhodes was not similarly careless when reporting on the atom bomb...
...right-wing causes (such as the Nicaraguan Contras) and history of acrimonious relations with organized labor and minority groups led to a long-running boycott of Coors beer by labor unions and other liberal concerns. Although the AFL-CIO recently ended its boycott, refusing to drink the Silver Bullet remains a common badge of political correctness on campus...
Fireworks aside, the horseshoe crab, like the cockroach, seems designed to survive a nuclear holocaust. Some have withstood a month without food; others have weathered boat propellers and bullet wounds...