Word: potshotted
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...people. Rioters took to the streets, demanding arms for defense and attacking Hussein for refusing to counter aggression with aggression. In Hebron, they burned the car of Hussein's governor and forced the army to throw roadblocks around the town. At Nablus, they potshot at po lice from barricades and upstairs win dows. In the Arab sector of Jerusalem, thousands poured through the streets, ripping down pictures of the King and shouting anti-Hussein slogans before Hussein's elite Arab Legion fired into the crowd from the walls around the Damascus gate. Riots dragged on for two days...
When Martha Graham took her modern dance troupe on tour in the 1930s and 1940s, her sensuous portrayals of tortured demons and demigods so outraged some audiences that one man in a Southern city took a potshot at her with a BB gun. Now, for the first time in 16 years, Martha Graham, a wispy 71, is touring the U.S. again, thanks to a $142,500 grant from the National Council on the Arts. This time she is drawing bravas instead...
...unit's position by firing needlessly at an Allied reconnaissance plane. Last week more than 1,000 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese lay dead in the rice fields rimming Sweet Water Bay north of Qui Nhon, and another 950 captured -all because a Communist took an ir resistible potshot at a helicopter of the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile...
...Leverett '14 (R-Mass). But a few other hopefuls are the nomination, too. One of these is the former Governor Endicott Peabody, who, as he left Friday for a "facting-finding." European tour, all but said that he wants to give Salty a contest. He also took a potshot at Collins - criticizing the North Harvard renewal plan as "an abuse of the purpose of urban renewal," suggesting that the land should be rehabilitated and "go to the people and not to just one property-owner...
...theory helps explain why Oswald apparently took a potshot at General Edwin Walker in Dallas in April 1963. Walker, a right-winger, espoused views that were frequently diametrically opposed to Kennedy's. So why, if political causation was the answer, should Oswald shoot at both Kennedy and Walker? The presumed solution: both were highly publicized, controversial men who happened to be within range of Oswald's rifle...