Word: shooted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was no electrified fence. Not even a moat with huge walls. No Jack Nicholson in mirrored sunglasses standing arms akimbo with a german shepherd by his side waiting to shoot the first thing that moved across the line. Just 300 Mexicans--Hondurans, Costa Ricans, Nicaraguans, and Portugese too, but mostly Mexicans--wandering around one side of an invisible line waiting for night fall...
...that paramilitary units would be used to counter the recent spate of N.P.A. attacks in the capital. The move pleased the military, which is convinced that peace can be won only with the help of such groups. Some Aquino-appointed government officials, however, complain that the private armies often shoot first and ask questions later. It is a measure of the challenge facing Aquino that by giving her generals the tools they say they need to defeat the Communist rebels, she risks alienating some of her most ardent supporters...
...segment cost a reported $3 million -- nearly twice the show's usual $1.6 million an episode, already well above average for an hour show. Because of the ultrafast dialogue, scripts average 95 pages, compared with about 60 for a typical TV hour, and take ten to twelve days to shoot (eight for most shows). Much of the production disarray, however, can be traced to Caron, 32, a portly ex-writer for Remington Steele. Co-workers describe him as a perfectionist who thrives on working close to deadlines and asking for last-minute major changes. The six staff writers have learned...
...party organ, Barricada: IT COULD HAVE BEEN A MASSACRE. In Washington, officials had quite a different reaction to the bungled strike. "They went all that way, got the charge wired in, then they screwed it up," moaned an Administration official. "These guys are like the gang that couldn't shoot straight...
...cooled, the carbon in it condensed and crystallized, forming diamonds. Later, when the star exploded, it created xenon that shot from the star's outer layers and caught up with the diamonds. "It's like the tortoise and hare," says Anders. "The xenon atoms overtake the diamonds and shoot right through them, becoming very securely locked...