Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them on an 80-m.p.h. chase was tested on a treadmill to prove it was still capable of such high speeds; a similar car was used to re-enact the shooting for photographic exhibits. A ballistics expert testified that gunpowder burns on the victim's shirt proved the gun had been fired inside the car, and a physiologist was brought in to verify that a man thrown off balance would tend to make a reflexive clutching movement that could pull a trigger...
...years later, but Annie was still doing what comes naturally, and so was the audience: they responded with a standing ovation in Manhattan's New York State Theater on opening night of a vibrant revival of Annie Get Your Gun. Showing her age a bit, yet just as sassy and brassy as ever, Ethel Merman, 57, was back bellowing out such semiclassics as You Can't Get a Man With a Gun, and a new tune called Old Fashioned Wedding that Irving Berlin, 78, cooked up especially for the revival. Later, Irving and Ethel got together and toasted...
Shoveling Sand. Mostly, the case underlines the fact that in Watts today a white policeman still feels compelled to approach a Negro's car with a leveled gun. Though federal agencies have allotted it $16 million since the riots -and only last week announced a $2,700,000 grant to break its isolation with better bus service-so far, said a federal official, it has done little more than "shovel sand against the tide...
...after Kurdish terrorists tried to blow up the Iraq Petroleum Co. pipeline from Kirkuk to Syria (damaging it slightly), Iraq government MIG-17s and MIG-19s blasted Kurdish supply routes at the base of Zozok Mountain, near the border, plastering hillside, countryside and villages in the neighborhood with machine-gun bullets, rockets and napalm. Kurdish sharpshooters sat out the attacks in caves, surprised army patrols on isolated roads, swooped down one night on the tents of an Iraqi army battalion stationed near the town of Ruwandiz...
...summer camp (or summer cruise, in NROTC) between their sophomore and junior years. After six weeks of practical instruction in first aid, foxholes, artillery, tanks, and defensive gas warfare--after dismantling, cleaning, reassembling, and firing a panoply of weapons ranging from the .45 pistol to the M-60 machine gun, the cadet finally decides whether to sign the contract...