Word: gunshots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with fear; their wives went mad trying to keep them safe at home. The only heroes in The Plough and Stars are those who neither fight nor spout rhetoric: Fluther Good, the working man whose honest dignity defies the British to do their worst, though he is terrified of gunshot; Bessie Burgess, who nurses Nora through losing a baby and husband and is killed trying to get Nora away from a dangerous window; and Mrs. Gogan, who at the end of the play performs the last rituals of civilization, keeping afloat the ceremonies of innocence, or at least of decency...
...Cornelia Wallace tells it in C'nelia, her highly personal portrayal of life with Alabama Governor George Wallace, their marriage was warm and close, both emotionally and physically. They shared baths together, sometimes "hugged and kissed and cried and sobbed," and were intimate even after his gunshot wounds made conventional sexual relations impossible. She tells how she once shooed the security men out of George's hospital room as he recuperated; she locked the door "and returned to the arms of my waiting husband." Afterward, "his wheelchair had a new wiggle in its roll...
When a 23-year-old ex-con named John Rojas was recently brought into the emergency room of New York's Hospital for Joint Diseases and Medical Center with three serious gunshot wounds, he seemed to be just another victim of street violence in crime-riddled Harlem. But by the time surgeons finished patching him up, they realized Rojas's case could well go into medical annals. One of the bullets had made an incredible 32-inch journey through his body; yet the man miraculously survived. The case was so extraordinary that its like has seldom been seen...
...bodies of a farm family in Sutherland, Neb., lay in their blood, dead from gunshot wounds; a ten-year-old girl and her grandmother had been raped after their deaths. As word of the grisly murders spread last October, major news organizations descended -some literally-on the scene. NBCTV, for example, sent a chartered helicopter whirling north from Denver. The journalists started out expecting to get a major crime story; instead, they ended up with a courtroom confrontation between the conflicting rights of a free press and of a defendant to a fair trial...
...bloodiest week ever in relations between the Arabs and Jews of Israel. In twelve hours of confrontation, six Israeli Arabs were shot dead, scores suffered gunshot wounds and 288 were arrested. Stones hurled by enraged Arabs injured 38 policemen. The clash between Israeli fellow citizens in the Galilee area was uglier and more violent than the recent troubles on the Israeli-occupied West Bank (TIME, March 29); in fact, only two Arabs have been killed and a few wounded on the West Bank since February. At week's end, Israeli Arabs and Jews alike were desperately trying to assess...