Word: shooted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Slowly--but ever so surely--the Kings started making mistakes. Their lead was cut to 16 with about five minutes to play, then six with two minutes left. Finally the Celtics had it down to three with just 31 seconds remaining. Larry Bird stood at the line to shoot...
...shuttle tragedy left its mark in some unexpected places. The New Yorker magazine, for example, had to stop its presses to change a cartoon in last week's issue in which a man seated on a barstool tells his companion, "I wish they'd shoot my congressman into space!" For all but the earliest copies of the magazine, the caption was rewritten to say, "I used to be a warm human being, but now, I'm sorry to say, I'm a bit of a swine...
There were signs that Museveni meant what he said. After past coups in Uganda, victorious troops have raped and plundered with abandon, but this time strict orders were issued against looting, along with a threat to shoot offenders. For the most part, the orderly soldiers of his National Resistance Army obeyed. That alone impressed many observers. The Presidents of neighboring Kenya, Zaire and Rwanda issued a joint communique expressing their satisfaction with the progress the Museveni government had made toward restoring peace and security in Uganda...
...story of this game is we bust our butts on defense for the first 20 minutes, and they shoot 70 percent," Harvard Coach Pete Roby said after the blowout. "Our problem is we can't shoot the basketball, pure and simple...
...They're better at running their offense than we are," Roby said. "If you can shoot...