Word: gunshot
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...Officers can speak at least one, and often two, foreign languages. Every enlisted man has one specialty and a grounding in two others, e.g., weapons, demolitions, medical care. The training is intensive: demolition experts can fashion explosives out of fertilizer; medics can amputate limbs and treat any kind of gunshot wound under field conditions. (One sergeant delivered 32 babies during a tour in Laos...
...first day of the trial, a juror admitted to the judge that the mere mention of blood made him ill. Since the case before the court involved a brutal gunshot murder, he was hastily excused. After 21 trial days and 70 witnesses later, the remaining eleven jurors brought in their verdict, ending the longest-and one of the most spectacular-murder trials in British legal history. Found guilty and sentenced to hang next week for the murder of Michael Gregsten last summer was James Hanratty, 25, a petty criminal and mental defective...
...deer season lasts for eight days; in the first four, Wisconsin counted four hunters dead of gunshot wounds, six of heart attacks. At season's end, the hunters and their red shirts disappear abruptly from Hurley's streets, vanishing southward into workaday anonymity. The girls drift away, and Hurley reverts to its somnolent tween-season existence as an iron-mining town...
Died. Thurman A. Whiteside, 50, the wealthy, wheeling-dealing Florida lawyer acquitted last fall of conspiring with ex-Federal Communications Commissioner Richard A. Mack to rig a Miami television channel award; by his own hand (a gunshot wound); in Miami...
...Lake Manyara, off in Tanganyika, an echoing gunshot stirs a huge, pink sea of flamingos into an undulating wave of flutter as they rise and settle once again. Down the corrugated road in a rumbling Land Rover come the white hunters, and once again the pink wings billow brightly in the sun. And then impatient stillness falls once more and muffles the lake...