Word: choppered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...casket to plant kisses on the Imam's face. The corpse spilled to the ground, bare feet protruding from beneath the white shroud. As the Guards beat back the crowds, firing shots in the air and spraying fire hoses, other soldiers shoved the body and coffin back into the chopper. It lifted off with the casket hanging precariously out the door...
...third, Toronto's Jesse Barfield lined a single to left and took second as George Bell beat out a high chopper to the left of the mound. The runners moved up on Fred McGriff's one-out grounder but Cecil Fielder took a called third strike...
...aircraft to Switzerland and Korea. Paisley allegedly also passed along details of a competing proposal by General Dynamics to sell its F-16 fighters to the same potential buyers. He was said to have acquired a secret study on the helicopter needs of the Marine Corps and its advanced chopper, dubbed Killer Egg, to give McDonnell Douglas an edge in future sales. Six FBI agents spent four hours on Tuesday examining records in Gunn's office and that of his secretary. They also sought the records of Lyons, who now works for the aircraft producer...
...able to end the day of skirmishes without suffering apparent casualties of its own. A Cobra helicopter carrying two crewmen failed to return to the Wainwright after a reconnaissance mission. Iran claimed that it had shot down the gunship. After a fruitless search for the missing chopper, the Navy listed the two crewmen as missing...
...protest. Lighting fires in the White House fireplace in the middle of summer. Kneeling with Henry Kissinger in prayer. Phone calls to Woody Hayes. Bebe Rebozo. Robert Abplanalp. Comic names, madcap circumstances. The man who exalted the "Enemies List," vowing not to hate his haters, waving bravely from the chopper door, then flying back to California toward a town with a name that sounds like clemency...