Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business you leave no stone unturned. He was driving his new 1976 white Datsun, the first new car he had ever owned. One of the reasons investigative reporting had gotten old with him was the threats he had received--remember in the Jimmy Breslin book, The Gang That Couldn' Shoot Straight, how the old Mafia don sent his wife out every morning to start the Cadillac, just in case? It was no laughing matter to Bolles, and he had always taped the car hood to make sure nobody had tampered with it. But now he had a new life...
...disappointing Red Sox close out the season with a series against the second-place Baltimore Orioles. The Sox have only the .500 mark to shoot for against the visitors, in a series that promised to be a pennant-deciding affair a few months...
...United States and of Texas. Her name is Margaret Mathews and she claims to be the great-granddaughter of Alexander Stephens, vice-president of the Confederacy. We discuss the Civil War at some length. She has two 40-foot flag poles which stand outside her home in Cut-N-Shoot, Texas. On one flies Old Glory; on the other the Confederate flag flying over the emblem of the Lone Start State...
...Southern scheme of things." That ideal has been translated into magnificent urban structures in Atlanta, Houston, Charlotte and smaller cities. Yet Southern urbanites are not captives of the city: they can swiftly dodge away to a country music festival, a fishing trip or an autumn dove shoot...
...house special" is soda pop, and the custom-built cars that haul the marauding hoods around are driven by pedal power. Lots of people get rubbed out in the gangland power struggle, but nobody dies. The splurge tommy guns, designed with the help of a gunsmith, shoot a substance that looks like deliquescent marshmallow. If anyone is hit by a fusillade of splurge-or, alternatively, with a custard pie in the kisser-their passing is denoted simply and rather sweetly by a frame freeze of their plastered visage. Ultimately, though, pies and even splurge become harmless in a raucous grand...