Word: hit-and-run
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Fans of Myra Breckinridge-that beautiful, transsexual, all-American succubus-will recall that she was last seen in a hospital bed after having the silicon knocked out of her by a hit-and-run driver. To save her life, Dr. Mengers rebuilt and re-endowed her as Myron Breckinridge: the man, in fact, who Myra had originally been before a sex-change operation transformed him into a her. Though the doctor fashioned a generous "rehnquist" for the new Myron, he did not provide him with a set of "powells...
...June 29, two of Byhalia's three policemen were chasing a black youth, Butler Young Jr., in connection with a suspected hit-and-run accident. They caught him outside of town and put him in the back of their patrol car, but he managed to escape and began to flee. The officers pursued him through a neighborhood, and one of them, Morris Hanna, shot and killed Young during the chase...
Providence coach Alex Nahigian likes to play basic baseball: hit-and-run, sacrifice, execute the fundamentals. But this year Providence has hitting too. Over the season the Friars have tattooed the ball at a .312 clip as a team and boast seven hitters--the two to eight men in the batting order--hitting over...
...true of the few other known S.L.A. hit-and-run forays, the bank robbery was apparently meticulously planned and coolly and professionally executed. Police believe that the bank had been carefully cased beforehand, presumably by some of the women because they would be less likely to be recognized. On the crystalline morning of the holdup, the bandits drove into the Sunset district, a neighborhood of middie-class homes and small businesses, in a green Ford station wagon. They were followed by four other S.L.A. members in a red Hornet sports car. The bank opened...
...heavy losses, the Proves' cumbersome old-style military organization has been abandoned for five-and six-man cells or "active service units," which operate independently and take their orders directly from what remains of the Provisionals' army council in the South. Tactics run mainly to hit-and-run operations on unsuspecting civilian targets, often in the border areas, in a pattern markedly similar to the British bombings...