Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leads them on a strike against one of the city's toughest anti-union employers, watches as they get their heads broken open by union-busting goons, and then vows to fight back. During the ensuring fight, Ricky (as already mentioned) bludgeons to death a man who tries to shoot him; when the bloated Senator Andrew Madison (Rod Steiger) opens his McClellanesque hearings with evidence culled from the recently disenchanted (and just murdered) Abe, one major chunk of the committee's case rests on the report of the bludgeoning. The rest of the questioning deals with the relationship which Kovak...
...enter or leave the kibbutz without the approval of an armed Israeli brigade. While jogging down a nearby mountain this afternoon, I had to stop to let pass several combat tanks, filled with Israeli men of my age who waved and pretended to shoot me with their guns. They seemed much too young...
...Spruance destroyers, Halstead was hoisted up a 150-ft. mast by crane and perched on a 16-in.-wide platform. To capture the magnitude of the Lexington, he was taken in a small boat across the bow of the mighty ship so that he could shoot up at the great gray mass, a view akin to the cover painting by Artist Nicholas Gaetano...
Reacting to what surely appears to be an imminent enemy attack, the U.S. commander orders two of his F-14 Tomcat supersonic fighters into the air. With their Phoenix missile system, the F-14s can shoot down both the Soviet jets and the missiles they fire. Into the air too goes a U.S. propeller-driven Hawkeye warning and control plane whose sophisticated radar sees everything within a 250-mile radius. The plane's computers can monitor up to 300 targets simultaneously and report their location, speed and course to a computer aboard...
...power and provide companies with larger after-tax profits to invest. Even many of the big-cut advocates would like to see a large chunk of the $25 billion come not out of individual income and corporate-profits taxes, but out of Social Security taxes that are scheduled to shoot up next Jan. 1 and in succeeding years. One reason: the portion of Social Security taxes levied on employers raises their cost of hiring workers, and companies pass those costs on in higher prices. For the moment, however, Congress seems content to postpone a debate on Social Security taxes until...