Word: gunpoint
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...multi-city crime spree lasting barely an hour, four teenagers hold up two Harvard students and two Cantabrigians at gunpoint, including an undergraduate walking beside Lowell House...
...juveniles reported they were robbed of a wallet at gunpoint near the intersection of Columbia and Washington Streets...
...portly, ebullient former army corporal and wedding photographer. But Foday Sankoh doesn't personally hack the hands off children or slaughter their parents in his drive for political power and control over Sierra Leone's diamond fields; for that he relies on an army of abducted teenagers, forced at gunpoint to rape or kill loved ones - a brutal measure designed to cut off the road home - before being dragged into the bush, where Sankoh's drug-addled legions become their only family. Now, his band of battle-hardened killers is on the march again, rounding up U.N. peacekeepers like...
Joshua Levin '02 used a neon orange dart gun to hold a stranger outside his Pforzheimer suite at gunpoint Tuesday morning, thinking the encounter was part of the House's springtime "Gotcha" game...
Some migrations are forced at gunpoint. Others are set in motion by the global economy. Money is dynamite, and it can scatter people better than mortar fire. The world is well into the second Industrial Revolution, in which the developed nations have gone dotcom and service. Smokestack industry and light manufacturing have moved to the Third World, and farmers have been displaced by the transformation of family agriculture into corporate agribusiness. As workers everywhere have moved off somewhere else, looking for the headwaters of the global-money flows, oversize cities have exploded. Landless Philippine farmers pack into Manila, jobless Moroccans...