Word: gunshots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Benny Friedman, 77, All-America quarterback at the University of Michigan (1924-26) and star of the National Football League for eight seasons, regarded as the game's first master of the forward pass; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in New York City. A sophisticated student of football, Friedman handed down his theories both as a college coach and as an outspoken advocate of reformed pension plans for the pro game's early stars and improved techniques for preventing injury...
...waits with calm expectancy, almost satisfaction, for each male Zabala to come pursuing him--and they inevitably do--across the vacant plain. Karl witnesses these ritualistic encounters with second generation Zabala men, whose fathers Barbarosa had killed during the past 30 years, during his first meeting with Barbarosa. A gunshot suddenly resounds, and a bullet grazes the unflinching Barbarosa's cheek. Instinctively Barbarosa shoots the young man rushing at him. Afterwards, he gently kisses the face of the dead young man and murmurs in all sincerity. "They're damn good people...
American slang is fed by many tributaries. Feminists are busy networking-the liberated version of using the old-boy network. Cops, as sardonic with language as criminals are, refer to a gunshot wound in the head as a serious headache. Drug users have their codes, but they seem to have lost some of their glamour. Certain drugs have a fatality about them that cannot be concealed in jaunty language. The comedian Richard Pryor introduced the outer world to freebasing a couple of years ago, and John Belushi died after he speed-balled (mixed heroin and cocaine). Punk language has made...
City Councilor David E. Sullivan called for an investigation after a gunshot was fired into the bathroom of David Travers, a tenant activist living in a 95-unit apartment in mid-Cambridge...
...three-year voyage around the world in his 36-ft. 9-in. Spray. Last week 16 sailors from eight countries (five Americans, three Britishers, three Frenchmen, a New Zealander, an Australian, a Japanese, a South African and a Czech) followed the great Yankee skipper's advice. As a gunshot cracked across Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay to signal the start, each sailor turned his stern on the plush attractions of old Newport, his bow toward the starting line off Goat Island and the wild Atlantic, and his thoughts to the challenge upon which he was embarking. Then each...