Word: shooted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...type of radar to detect low-flying planes are supersonic; but if they slow to the 150 m.p.h. of the suspect prop planes, they will be near stalling speed. Even then they could do little but frighten the smugglers. The possibility of downing innocents almost certainly would preclude any shoot-to-kill orders to Air Force pilots...
Calling for an end to the fighting, Brigadier General Ghazi Kenaan, Syria's intelligence chief in Lebanon, threatened to move in and silence the guns. "Our forces will promptly shoot at any gunman in sight," he warned. By week's end, however, the casualty count in the continuing factional feud stood at some 250 dead and more than 800 wounded, and still Syria's 7,500 troops remained poised on the sidelines...
...what is captured on film, Olympus engineers had to link the viewing window to the main lens in such a way that the viewfinder zooms as the lens does. Yashica and Chinon avoided this complication by using the standard SLR prism-and-mirror arrangement that lets one view and shoot through the same lens; to stay trim, Yashica uses a vertical format that makes negatives half the size of a standard 35-mm picture...
December 6, 1987: Same time, next year. In 1986, the men's soccer team advanced to the NCAA Final Four, only to fall to Duke. In 1987, the Crimson advances to the Final Four and falls in a shoot-out. San Diego State knocks in one more penalty kick than the Crimson and goes to the Final Two with a 2-1 victory...
...killer T cells are relentless. Docking with infected cells, they shoot lethal proteins at the cell membrane. Holes form where the protein molecules hit, and the cell, dying, leaks out its insides. To ensure that the cell and its viral occupants are destroyed, the killer T cells then deliver the coup de grace by transmitting a signal that causes the cell to chew up DNA from both itself and the virus. Explains Dr. Irving Weissman of Stanford: "This is an overlapping, dual system of killing that ensures that the seed of viral production will be eliminated from the body...