Word: gunpoint
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...asking his gunnery sergeant in a whisper, "Shall I blow him away?" The answer was no. All journalists, even experienced ones like Wilde, have been bedeviled by kat-chewing thugs, pesky mosquitoes and static-stricken telephone lines. "Nearly every correspondent has his story of being robbed at gunpoint, usually by preteen kids," reports Wilde...
...others are not. Bush is still smarting from the criticism that he was too slow to help the Iraqi Kurds in the aftermath of the Gulf War. He is also aggrieved that U.S. supplies airlifted to Mogadishu since August have been stuck in warehouses or stolen at gunpoint in the streets. Secretary- General Boutros-Ghali has made sharp references to the West's habit of ignoring Africa, and has demanded "a countrywide show of force...
Kids whose ice cream has been stolen from them at gunpoint look happier than Sullivan did after the game. "For an opening game on the road, it was a worst case scenario," Sullivan said. "We couldn't score points, and we couldn't stop them from scoring points...
...itinerary of the ultra-violent gangsters in Reservoir Dogs. When they are not exploring the priapic subtext of lyrics to Madonna songs or debating the efficacy of tipping, they are shooting (or, vividly, torturing) anyone who gets in their way, including themselves. It's Glengarry Glen Ross at gunpoint. The talented Tarantino has devised one bravura sequence in which an undercover detective acts out, for the benefit of the duped hoodlums, a fake story about a close call with the cops; easing from the past tense to the present and then into seductive fantasy, the sequence reveals...
Keene and Maes were only able to leave the country when they were arrested by the religious police and put on an airplane at gunpoint. No one ever explained to them why they were arrested or deported, Keene says...