Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human worms like him without ideals or ideas will survive while the master race collapses. Of course, survival requires not only self-betrayal, but betrayal of others as well. Having become a collaborator, Pasqualino is forced to select others to be killed, and finally, in the climactic sequence, to shoot his friend Francesco, who has chosen to die rather than continue to Francesco, who has chosen to die rather than continue to live in a situation which extinguishes all human values...
...Revel's view, Communism does not evolve; it only makes strategic adjustments. "Stalinism is the essence of Communism," he writes. "What changes is not the Stalinist system but the rigor with which it is applied." Since a regime cannot shoot or imprison every one year after year, a relaxation of repression or an increase in consumer goods may work better for a time. But "Khrushchev and Brezhnev are no less Stalinist than Stalin . . . They are merely less bloodthirsty...
...from execution. Moreover, Foreman argued, a Southern jury, in the aftermath of national revulsion over the John and Robert Kennedy assassinations, would want to show that the South did not tolerate such acts. Nevertheless, one state witness, who claimed to have seen Ray leaving the rooming house after the shooting, seemed unreliable. The bullet that hit King was too fragmented to be conclusively linked to Ray's rifle by ballistics tests. No one saw Ray shoot. A sharp lawyer presumably had a chance to raise reasonable doubt in the minds of a jury about Ray's guilt...
Most of the N.H.L. could not cope with the distinctive offensive style of the Soviets. Both the Wings and Central Army play disciplined hockey, relying on speedy skating and short passes to set up quick wrist shots. They shoot only when they have worked the puck into what seems like kissing distance from the opposition goalie. Against the Bruins, Central Army was outshot 40-19, but won 5-2. Says Boston Managing Director Harry Sinden: "The Soviets may be the greatest goal scorers we've ever seen. They hardly waste a shot...
...pissed off. I've been doing a lot of thinking lately, and I want to shoot my mouth off, sort of. I mean, I wouldn't say some of this stuff for the hell of it, you know, say it to the Globe. But with The Crimson I figure I can talk...