Word: shooted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gravely wounding the Pope on May 13 of that year in St. Peter's Square, was working for Bulgarian agents and, by implication, the Soviet Union. The ten-month trial of Agca's alleged accomplices--and of Agca himself for illegal possession of the pistol that he used to shoot the Pope--ended when Prosecutor Antonio Marini handed the case to the jury without a closing summary. "There were no new arguments for me to rebut," he explained later...
...order to beat the Redmen, we will have to shut down their transition game and shoot a little better," Scalise noted...
...reference to Iacocca's Ellis Island scuffle with Interior Secretary Donald Hodel, Lido, asked about a shack in a stakeout scene, replies, "It's just a leftover from some developers who wanted to put up a hotel. We don't go for commercializing public land." Lido is ready to shoot off more than his mouth. "If it's any help," he tells Crockett and Tubbs, "I know how to handle a gun." And hold a grudge...
Meanwhile, police engaged last week in a shoot-out with black militants on a road outside Cape Town. Officials said security officers mounted an ambush after informers told them that the men were A.N.C. guerrillas who planned to attack the police station in Guguletu, a black township near Cape Town. Seven A.N.C. militants were killed, but their presence near South Africa's southernmost city, far from the northern border area where the A.N.C. has been most active, is evidence that the group's 24-year-old insurgency campaign has become more aggressive. Indeed, sporadic bursts of violence erupted throughout...
...offer drinks like "the Caligula" or "the Vlad the Impaler." Imelda Marcos and Michelle Duvalier could meet by the pool for a "Lady Macbeth." The Big Boys could swagger around and try to seduce one another's wives. Steam baths, massages, the camaraderie of the locker room. They could shoot pigeons and get drunk, and now and then they could pretend to have one of their flunkies taken out and shot. Or better yet, the victim could just vanish, without explanation, without a trace. The good old days...