Word: choppered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the Phils trailing 4-2, pinch hitter Del Unser stroked an opposite-field double off reliever Dan Quisenberry to score Bob Boone from first. After a Pete Rose chopper to first, Unser tied the game on Bake McBride's bouncing single to right...
...Philadelphia, Jose Cruz singled home Terry Puhl in the tenth to put the Astros ahead, 4-3. Shortly after, alert pinch-runner Rafael Landestoy scored the eventual winning run from third on a Cesar Cedeno chopper to short. With Cruz on second, and Cedeno on first, Dave Bergman tripled home two more insurance runs...
Casino Owner Harvey Gross, 75, anted up $3 million in $100 bills and sent it by helicopter early the next morning to a rendezvous point. Once there, the chopper's pilot received new instructions from the extortionists to head for a strobe light flashing along a highway in northern California. He did so, fruitlessly hovered for half an hour looking for the signal and then flew back to Stateline...
...just don't like to put the wormy on the hooky." Swear to God. Even the producers must have realized the scene was getting out of hand, because seconds later a helicopter appears. "Are you Dr. Seagram?" a man asks through a bullhorn from the window of the chopper. "I've come to take you back to Washington. Government orders...
Thai forces reacted swiftly to the Vietnamese assault. Ground units swept the invaded area with automatic weapons fire, while helicopter gunships strafed Vietnamese sighted in scrub land outside the camps. After the Vietnamese shot down a Thai chopper and observation plane, the Thais moved in heavy reinforcements of tanks and armored cars to the front. TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark visited the scene while the fighting was still going on. "Thousands of refugees were fleeing down the road," he reported, "and many others squatted in the water of the overflowing rice paddies, the picture of abject misery...