Word: gunned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says. "I couldn't handle any kind of stress. I'd just blow. You can walk in my parents' house today and see the signs -- holes in doors I stuck my fist through, indentations in walls I kicked." Chamberlain grew so despondent, he recalls, that he "held a gun to my head once or twice." Others have succeeded in committing suicide. Warns Aaron Henry, 22, a St. Charles, Mo., drug counselor whose adolescent dependence on steroids drove him close to physical and mental ruin: "When you put big egos and big dreams together with steroids, that's a nasty combination...
...Purdy gun down a yard full of children? "He just hated everybody," said Stockton Police Captain Dennis Perry. The more significant question: Why could Purdy, an alcoholic who had been arrested for such offenses as selling weapons and attempted robbery, walk into a gun shop in Sandy, Ore., and leave with an AK-47 under his arm? The easy availability of weapons like this, which have no purpose other than killing human beings, can all too readily turn the delusions of sick gunmen into tragic nightmares...
...news conference, Dukakis denied that he was attempting to put a gun to the Legislature's head by proposing a generous local aid increase, which is politically popular on Beacon Hill, linked to his tax package, which is politically unpopular...
...Rice put together a fine drive in the game's final minutes. And when the game was over--after Cincinnati quarterback Boomer Esiason's pass fell to the grass--we saw something we don't see often in sports anymore, let alone on the tense city streets. When the gun sounded, 49ers Coach Bill Walsh and Cincinnati Coach Sam Wyche walked off the field...
Unlike at other universities--Ohio State and Texas A&M, for instance--coaches are not always under the gun. Vince Lombardi's motto about winning being the only thing does not grace the walls of the Harvard Athletic Department...