Word: salvo
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...totes a sawed-off, 20-gauge, pump-action shotgun he bought for $20 last January from a 16-year-old friend. "The grip was broken, so I got a good price," the 17-year-old says proudly. He doesn't shoot birds anymore, but he fires an occasional salvo into the night sky around Omaha. "Sometimes I just feel like busting it, you know. I just want to pull the trigger...
...dozens of young people who helped write the declaration passionately defend its contents. "We see this as an opening salvo," says Jonathan Karl, 25, a writer and editor at Freedom House, a human-rights group. "We want to put people on notice that we have a direction, and we want these to be the central topics of discussion and action by our generation." Bill Strauss, 46, co-author of the book 13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? and one of the few participants in the group over 40, compares the declaration with the anti- Establishment Port Huron Statement issued...
Firing the first salvo in what could become a legal battle over alleged discrimination in the Harvard police department, a former security guard has filed complaints with at least one government agency charging that his firing last year was discriminatory...
...closed ranks to oppose the deal, unless they are granted greater access to British markets. At the same time, the German parliament's Transport Committee threatened to terminate its 1955 air treaty with the U.S. if the Americans did not open more airports to German airlines. The parliamentary salvo is seen as a pre-emptive strike in support of Lufthansa German Airlines' bid for the bankrupt U.S. carrier Continental Airlines...
...dope with two babes and Hillary hustling cookies," she says contemptuously. "Well, that did it. That really did it." Like many small-town Midwesterners, Seman is so polite she seems awkward when angry. "Look how upset I am," she says, visibly quaking. Catching her breath, she fires one last salvo: "Bush had four years, and now he talks about change? Hah! Just how dumb does he think...