Word: shooted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anyone can skate the puck up the ice and shoot," Cleary said, "but everyone has to learn the other parts of the game, such as digging pucks out of the corner, playing solid defense, passing, blocking shots and banging bodies in front of the net. C.J. already does it all, which is rare in any level of hockey...
Another dexterity puzzle required a fighter plane to "shoot down" a WWI-vintage zeppelin. But if the ball fell into a hole, the fighter itself was shot down--disappearing into a hole surrounded by a picture of a fireball...
Kuwaiti defense forces on Failaka Island, 15 miles northeast of Kuwait City, watched the Silkworm blast off from Fao and head toward the oil dock. No effort was made to shoot the missile down, as had been done with the Silkworm that hit the Sea Isle City. Late in the week, however, Kuwaiti officials announced that they were setting up U.S.-made Hawk missile batteries on Failaka, where they will be close enough to Fao to interdict the Silkworms. The Kuwaitis have had the Viet Nam-era missiles since...
...charge of 250 fire fighters. "I guess I don't have the patience for any other job." A 15-year veteran of forest fires, Humphrey has had only one day off in a month, but says he would keep on working for free. As he talks, nearby flames shoot several hundred feet up a Douglas fir in a matter of seconds. The tremendous roar is followed by the thunder of a "widowmaker" -- a falling tree -- crashing through the dense smoke. Soon other trees ignite almost spontaneously in an effect known among fire fighters as crowning. "Those flames can leap across...
...Reagan Administration dismissed the incident as what one senior official called merely a "dustup" with Iran, another demonstration of U.S. determination to protect shipping in the gulf. "We have told them that if they shoot at us, we shoot back," he said. "It's perfectly consistent with the rules of engagement." But with the U.S. and Iran embraced in an increasingly deadly minuet, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's fanatical regime seems determined to ignore American rules and warnings...