Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plan is a patchwork of medieval chivalry, Confederate rhetoric and shoot-'em-up justice. He will go away with the girl in the next room - a patient in the asylum who has been gang-raped into insensibility. In Lancelot's view, this outrage has purified her of every indulgence he hates in the modern world. Together they will be the new Adam and Eve, dedicated to "a stern code, a gentleness toward women and an intolerance of swinishness...
When center Sue Hewitt took the ball to the hoop, three-quarters of the way through the half, the Crimson women got their biggest break of the game. As Hewitt turned to shoot, Westfield's Carter went for the block, caught Hewitt on the arm, and chalked up her fifth foul, sending her out of the game for good...
...drugstore. He starts feeling around inside his pants for the gun; the druggist winks slyly and offers him six brands of prophylactics. And, when the two hold up the telephone company, a line of customers filing complaints immediately begins to applaud. One woman even advises them to shoot the computer...
...recession. But since then economic recovery has prompted a renewed willingness to incur debt-or perhaps the real sequence went the other way around. In any case, installment debt rose 10% in 1976, and Salomon Brothers, a leading Wall Street investment house, predicts that it will shoot up 12% this year. Says Lacy Hunt, a vice president at Phila delphia's Fidelity Bank: "The ability of the consumer to take on more debt will be the underpinning of the economy, in 1977. This year is the year of consumer credit...
...spend freely at posh restaurants. Says Roger Martin, public relations manager of Windows on the World atop the World Trade Center in Manhattan: "If a person with a card sees a $35 bottle of wine on the list, after one drink he'll decide to buy it. Shoot the works, baby! It's funny money, not green hard cash...