Word: shields
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nothing perhaps compared with what lies ahead. All around Ted's cabin, FBI agents continue to dig for clues to connect him to the Unabomber. Late last week David and his mother Wanda visited the offices of the federal public defender in Washington. Is David now hoping to shield Ted from the law he gave him over to? A brother's obligations can be a complicated thing...
...started shooting in the playground, then down a corridor as he made his way to the gymnasium. Firing from a corner of the room, Hamilton hit teacher Gwenne Mayor as she tried to shield the 29 children she had taken there for phys ed. She died on the spot. Then he moved around the room, methodically shooting the screaming children, chasing some as they ran and pumping at least one and sometimes three or more bullets into the little bodies. Then he retreated to a corner away from the carnage and fired the final bullet into his own brain...
...should be glad that the world didn't learn of the Martian hailstorm any earlier. Congress might have spent countless dollars building an atmospheric shield. Its members would have had to appease the country when their constituents thought those insidious Martian rocks were soaking up their money by hiding from view all the diamonds in their backyard...
Dudayev: Yes, it was. If the war goes on, the pipeline will never operate. It will be exploded. But if we reach accommodation with Russia, it will acquire a reliable neighbor who will shield it from aggression, acts of sabotage and terror...
Last August, in an apparent effort to shield Samper, Botero resigned as Defense Minister after being implicated in the soliciting of campaign funds from the Cali kingpins; two weeks later, he found himself in detention, under investigation by the Prosecutor General's office. Though Samper repeatedly declared his belief in Botero's innocence, Botero came to suspect that the President was planning to make him the scapegoat in the scandal. He reached the breaking point on Jan. 21, when Samper failed to appear for a scheduled dinner at the barracks, sending in his place Interior Minister Horacio Serpa. Botero became...