Word: shooted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...oppose tax increases, which eventually led to Dole's outburst. That night the Vice President appeared on the three major area stations in a half-hour "Ask George Bush" forum. On Monday, Barry Goldwater, grand old man of the right, flew to New Hampshire to endorse Bush and shoot a five-minute commercial with the candidate. "I believe in George Bush," Goldwater said in the TV spot. "He's the man to continue the conservative revolution we started 24 years...
...earn it." The knowledge can taint even the pleasure of making expensive purchases. The first time Wilkin spent $100 for a pair of shoes, she was so upset she never wore them. And nagging twinges persist. "I still rationalize buying a $3,000 set of sheets," she says. "Well, shoot, why not? You spend a third of your life in bed, and they last." The sheer social inequity of their gilded circumstances gnaws away at some. Declares Paul Haible of San Francisco, who inherited $1 million: "I'm still confronted with people sleeping in the streets. Money may filter that...
...next 50 years, Thesiger repeatedly put his life at risk. His safaris into unmapped regions were frequently threatened by bandits and tribesmen who had a tendency to kill and castrate strangers. On the staff of a British district commission in the Sudan, he was regularly called on to shoot cattle-killing lions. He did so on foot, sharing great dangers with villagers armed only with spears. During World War II he fought Italians in Ethiopia; in Libya he took part in raids on German encampments and communications as part of a jeep-mounted guerrilla unit...
...their industry as well as special privileges at the Games. So nothing but Coke-owned drinks are available at the Olympic venues or in the athletes' Village. Kodak, the official film, won the right to operate the center that is processing the millions of rolls professional and amateur photographers shoot at the Games. IBM got to provide the computers that officials and athletes are using to check the schedule of events as well as the times and scores recorded. Visa is the Games' official credit card; ^ American Express, MasterCard and Diners Club cards are thus not being accepted...
...that struck her in the right eye. Yet her slaying got scant attention. Footage of the grieving family was not the top story on the evening news. The Los Angeles Herald Examiner buried her death in a small note. The Los Angeles Times, which had been splashing the Westwood shoot-out across the top of its metro section, treated the Washington killing as a short follow-on. Two officers were assigned to the case...