Word: cal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police soon found the weapon, a new .243-cal. Remington semi-automatic rifle, in an air shaft at Hunter College, a block from the mission, and traced it to an 18-year-old Brooklyn youth known to be "an activist" in the fanatically anti-Soviet J.D.L...
...downgrades as merely "Marginal" the doctoral programs at eight church seminaries, among them the only Lutheran, Episcopal and United Church of Christ programs and two of the three Presbyterian ones. He also gives a Marginal rating to the programs at Fordham, Temple, U-C Santa Barbara, Saint Louis, Southern Cal, Catholic University and Drew University...
...made so human. Variously and happily, Grendel suggests Caliban, grumping around Prospero's island like the first exploited colonial, Milton's Lucifer, that voluble, self-righteous rebel simmering eternally on a lake of fire, even King Kong on the Empire State Building, bemusedly plucking at those 30-cal. holes in his furry chest...
...wounded three times. On one occasion, he stormed a German-occupied hill alone, killing 15 and wounding 35; later he captured, singlehanded, an enemy machine-gun nest. In the battle for the Colmar pocket in eastern France, he mounted a burning tank destroyer and with its .50-cal. machine gun held off an attacking Nazi force of some 250 men and six tanks. It was for this action that he was awarded the Medal of Honor...
...because the killers' car was easily recognized by witnesses. One of the three white men in it was a local farm hand. When the police picked them up four hours later in a town only 18 miles away, they still had loaded weapons with them, including a .22-cal. pistol with one round expended...