Word: ranged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before the opening bell rang, the traders, specialists, clerks and messengers who work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange sensed that Wednesday would not be an ordinary day. The Federal Reserve Board's decision to raise the prime rate had already rocked the stock market, triggering a frenzied sell-off that had sent the market plummeting by a startling 26 points on Tuesday-the worst setback it had suffered in nearly six years. Now, at brokers' booths and trading stations, everybody was fretting about what worried investors would do next. "We're going...
...sultry morning heat, U.S. District Judge John H. Wood Jr., 63, walked out of his San Antonio town house to drive to court. Suddenly a sniper's rifle shot rang out. Struck in the small of the back, he wheeled slowly around and collapsed. His wife Kathryn rushed to his side and found him dying. He was the first federal judge to be murdered since...
...they reached an isolated clearing near a commercial TV station tower, a quarter-mile away from the government complex, the three men got out of the car. Shots suddenly rang out, and the terrified cabbie ducked to the car floor. Rosado died immediately. Soto lay mortally wounded. The undercover agent suffered superficial wounds. The presumed bombers carried only two boxes of matches and a box of charcoal briquettes. Police officials said they had shouted "Halt!" when the revolutionaries got out of the cab, but the two youths had begun firing...
...Tehran, and Ayatullah Morteza Motahari, one of Iran's leading Islamic theologians, was leaving a home where he had been conferring with Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan. Behind the holy man, out of the shadows, stepped two gunmen. Motahari never saw them. A single shot rang out, and he fell mortally wounded with a bullet through the back of his head. His killers fled...
Entire families, including mothers with their children and nurses, con verged on Paris' Place de la Revolution (now the Place de la Concorde) to see the spectacle. After the blade fell, an executioner displayed the severed head of the King to the crowd. Shouts of "Vive la nation!" rang out. Louis' tricornered hat was auctioned from the scaffold and Ms hair and hair ribbon were also sold by the executioner's aide. Some people took home hand kerchiefs and scraps of paper dipped in the King's blood as souvenirs. Many danced around the guillotine, singing...