Word: gunfights
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...beer at a corporate gathering in front of several hundred cheering workers. There are probably even fewer at his level who are given to earthy battle cries like "If you want to run with the big dogs, you can't piss like a puppy" or "Never come to a gunfight with only a knife." But Adami surely needed all the fighting spirit he could muster when, almost 18 months ago, his longtime employer, South African Breweries (now known as SABMiller), dispatched him to Milwaukee, Wis., to help restore its floundering new subsidiary as a serious rival to behemoth Anheuser-Busch...
...DIED. JACK ELAM, 84, character actor who played mean hombres in hundreds of movies and television episodes; in Ashland, Oregon. Elam, who said his rolling, blind left eye was the result of a childhood fight, appeared in several classic westerns, including Rawhide, High Noon and Gunfight at the O.K Corral...
...slow, deliberate whispering to imbue a story of destroyed childhood love with striking grace. Luis Bacalov’s “The Grand Duel – (Porte Prima)” instantly rockets listeners back to their childhood dreams of being the good cowboy in the final gunfight. “Green Hornet” swings in a way that recalls the glory days of Benny Goodman, and “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” is a ten-minute epic that leaves us feeling as if we’ve gone through...
...smugglers are named for--coyotes--henchmen working for Avianeda and Andrade fired at the cops with automatic weapons. "We've never faced that kind of resistance from coyotes," says the Minatitlan detective commander, Simitrio Rodriguez. "They're usually not even armed." None of the police were hurt. When the gunfight was over, Avianeda, 39, and four others were under arrest. Andrade, 28, had fled, and is still at large...
...turnout in a similar referendum prompted parliament leaders to say that they will ratify E.U. entry regardless - a move that angered many Slovaks. FREE AT LAST ALGERIA Seventeen European tourists held hostage for three months by Islamic militants in the Western Sahara were freed by Algerian commandos after a gunfight that left one soldier and at least four kidnappers dead. Military officials said that the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) were responsible for the kidnappings. Germany's intelligence service says the group has never targeted civilians, and one of the hostages said the kidnappers wanted money. Members...