Word: gunshot
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Senator Fred Harris, 45. Gunshot wound from hunting accident at age 15 fully healed. No flare-up of a duodenal ulcer suffered in 1954. No recurrence of dizziness bout in 1972, diagnosed as acute labyrinthitis. Only real problem is weight (198 Ibs. on 5-ft. 8¾-in. frame), though he recently lost...
...hollows were up in arms; two men had been wounded, and a third killed by gunshot; miners had been evicted from company-owned houses; and a group of liberals, including Senator Fred Harris, Willard Wirtz and some chic Harvard types had come down as concerned citizens to investigate. Miller--who in an unprecedented union show of support, had backed the strikers with $100 per week of strike pay for over a year--called for a five-day nationwide mines shutdown, and led a rally of several thousand miners from across the nation in a parade through Harlan's streets...
...loving, trigger-happy to let its leaders mingle openly with its people? Is it so sick that it spawns and encourages the lethal fantasies of its alienated mental misfits? Once again, the indignant demands. Presidents must stop proving their manhood by barging into crowds of strangers or strolling within gunshot range of waiting spectators. The press must cease providing crazies with a podium for instant notoriety. Better ways must be found to protect the President. Somebody, if not all Americans, must bear the blame...
Died. Max Wylie, 71, writer, former television and advertising executive and father of Janice Wylie, a 21-year-old Newsweek copy girl whose murder in 1963 in an affluent Manhattan neighborhood received wide publicity and led to a famous mistaken identity trial; by his own hand, of a gunshot wound; in Fredericksburg, Va. Although Wylie, the younger brother of the late novelist Philip Wylie, wrote a number of mediocre novels and other works, none of his literary efforts brought him as much public exposure as the overwhelming amount of misfortune he encountered. Five years after the murder of his daughter...
Plath reads her poems with a relentless intensity. She seems to hurl her words at the listener, each elegantly rounded vowel like a trajectory for a gunshot-sharp consonant. Just as she tried in her poetry to use her craft and skill to "manipulate intense personal experience"--as she says in an interview included on the record--so she uses impeccable diction to give a defining framework to the raw, brute emotion in her voice...