Word: rifleman
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...request of then-Attorney General Reno, investigated whether notorious Boston mobsters James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi had corrupted the FBI agents whom they served as informants. That probe led to the conviction of retired FBI agent John Connolly Jr., sentenced to 10 years in prison for helping the two avoid prosecution. The investigation helped inspire the Martin Scorsese film The Departed...
...Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby...
...line of cadets enters bearing the American flag, and the flags of the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force. The huge room is silent. As one of the seven cadets in the Color Guard, Waterman holds the Army flag in her white-gloved hands. Waterman walks behind the rifleman, who leads the line, and a cadet holding the American flag. She and the other cadets march slowly, trying to keep in step. When they arrived early to practice, they had a hard time marching exactly together. Now, as they cross the wooden dance floor in front of the podium...
...Cooper?with some dramatic help from the calm, crisp voice of [ground liaison] John Glenn ... Cooper and Glenn ran swiftly, surely down a check list of the operations Cooper must perform for re-entry. Cooper skillfully steadied his craft by a manual control stick ... Like a rifleman with a cross-hair sight, he lined up a horizontal mark on his window with the horizon...
...just as easily be seen as civilians. When a platoon was ambushed on a residential street late on Friday--triggering a blazing exchange between two U.S. units--four unarmed men emerged an hour later claiming they had merely been out shopping. "I say we just kill 'em anyway," a rifleman who had been part of the friendly-fire incident darkly joked...