Word: gunshots
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...them magistrates or city councilors-in Belfast's Malone Road district, hitherto untouched by terrorism. Two houses were wrecked by bombs, the husband of Edith Taggart, Ulster's only woman Senator, was struck with a pistol butt, the wife of a city councilor was slightly wounded by gunshot, and a reserve army sergeant was shot critically in the chest and neck. No deaths resulted because the raids were either bungled, thwarted by the resistance of the householders, or ill-planned...
...letter in Belfast, bombs are exploding in different parts of the city, and ordinary people are suffering. I have not had an easy day, visiting homes that are heartbroken with grief, and this afternoon seeing one of my church 17-year-olds, a leg amputee, the victim of I.R.A. gunshot wounds. It is against this background that I listened with shock at the statement of Senator Kennedy...
Individual troopers corroborated the officials' stories. Then, 24 hours later, the Monroe County medical examiner, Dr. John F. Edland, provided some shocking news. He had examined eight of the dead hostages and found that "all eight cases died of gunshot wounds. There was no evidence of slashed throats." A ninth hostage's body was examined at a nearby hospital; he, too, had died of bullet wounds. Two independent pathologists confirmed that all nine hostages had indeed been shot to death. None of the bodies had been mutilated, although some bore cuts and marks from beatings. All had died on Monday...
...with a cheap line of chatter (Tony Musante) and his girl (Trish Van Devere), who is supposed to be a moll but looks a good deal more like a Peck & Peck model. The suspense is so listless that the characters seem considerably less likely to perish from gunshot than from atrophy...
Died. Robert E. Peach, 51, former head of Mohawk Airlines; of self-inflicted gunshot wounds; in Clinton, N.Y. A World War II Navy bomber pilot who won two Distinguished Flying Crosses. Peach joined tiny Robinson Airlines (three planes) in 1945. After Robinson changed its name to Mohawk, he was elected president, and later board chairman. The driving force behind Mohawk's rapid rise to become the nation's 4th largest regional carrier. Peach was also the first president of a U.S. scheduled airline to hire a black stewardess...