Word: gunpoint
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...likes of LL Cool J, Beah lived a normal life that was interrupted by rebel soldiers who forced him to wander from town to town with his friends in search of safety. After his parents were killed by the rebels, Beah was forced into the army at gunpoint, constantly reminded about his parents’ murder and fed drugs that numbed the physical pain of his wounds and made it possible for him to continue fighting and killing. In one of the most outstanding emotional scenes, a verbal disagreement between Beah and his friends and soldiers recruited by the rebels...
...have been resolved yesterday, it has become a media event that is monopolizing media coverage in Britain and in the rest of Europe at large. Understandably so. On March 23, Iranian Revolutionary Guards captured 15 Royal Marine sailors. Though at first, the Iranian government claimed they were held at gunpoint in the Iraqi waters that the Brits were supposed to be patrolling, it swiftly changed its mind...
...more likely to end up shot than one who simply hands over money - though his message isn't helped by incidents like one last October in which a would-be victim shot and killed a man he told police was trying to rob him and a female companion at gunpoint near the French Quarter. Then there's the possibility that a gun will be stolen and used in other crimes. But as long as the sense of being under siege persists, such concerns aren't likely to dampen sales of guns, pepper spray, guard dogs and other weapons...
...will put up a fight? That didn’t stop the Fulton Country police department from deploying a SWAT team with guns drawn in a RIAA-sponsored copyright violation bust. Or take the South Carolina high school drug sweep where SWAT officers forced kids to lie prone at gunpoint as dogs searched their lockers (no drugs were found...
...last summer, Islamic youths, outraged by the group's arm thrusts and crotch grabs, rushed onstage and beat up its four members. Soon after, a Palestinian M.C. known as Sompol was also assailed for immorality. He was kidnapped midperformance and let go three hours later, after a warning at gunpoint to stop bringing un-Islamic Western behavior into Gaza...