Word: gunpoint
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...Jews. And there was something else: a determination, born of his experience in the Holocaust, to do whatever was necessary to protect Israel. Begin's father, a leader of the Jewish community in Brest Litovsk, Poland, was said to have been thrown by the Nazis into a river at gunpoint while weighted down with sacks filled with rocks; he died, along with many others from the same community. Begin's mother was also murdered by the Nazis, as was his brother Herzl. Even today Begin cannot bring himself to write letters to Germans, and he has admitted that at times...
...zing into his earlier melodramas (Truck Stop Women, Stunts), here borrows from George Armitage's cult Gothic, Massacre at Central High, to create an adolescent colony as teeming and desolate as an American Gulag. The principal is a blinkered hypocrite; the biology prof (Roddy McDowall) teaches chromosomes at gunpoint. And the school toughs-moral crustaceans dressed in swastika T shirts and the very latest leather-are led by no ordinary psychopath. Stegman (Timothy Van Patten) is also a musical prodigy: as he directs a gang rape of the hero's wife he whistles the first bars from Johann...
...ZOMO security forces, who have frequently been used to break up demonstrations, waited in the side streets with their riot gear and water cannons. Said a middle-aged steelworker: "How can you believe in the government's good intentions when you have to have a celebration at gunpoint...
Keith A. Supranard is charged with grabbing the summer school student, threatening him and his date at gunpoint, and stealing the student's money and his date's purse in an early morning robbery on DeWolfe St. near Leverett House eight days...
...resting place. The funeral cortege is broken up by soldiers who fire in the air and lob tear-gas canisters into the crowd. On the way home from the funeral, I see an 80-year-old man being dragged by soldiers from his front porch and forced at gunpoint to clear the streets of debris...