Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outspoken stands won him wide public support in the U.S. but offended a number of State Department officials, as well as some American allies at the U.N. Last week Ivor Richard, the British ambassador to the U.N., chastised Moynihan in a speech by implicitly comparing him with a shoot-from-the-hip Wyatt Earp, a vengeful Savonarola and an angry King Lear raging amid the storm. Moynihan was furious and decided that between criticism from the State Department and from U.N. diplomats, he had had enough. Kissinger urged him to stay. Said the Secretary: "He has done an excellent...
...true, as the critics stress and the Warren Commission concedes, that Oswald's scope was mounted slightly off center; the rifle is so constructed as to make a precise center mounting impossible. Practice shooting is required to compensate for the scope's misalignment. Oswald at least once told Marina he was going off to target-shoot. Also, as one army weapons expert advised the commission, Oswald may have been disastrously lucky in that the 3° decline on which the Kennedy car was traveling could have offset the scope's error...
Safonov said when the American physicans visited the Soviet Union, he didn't ask them questions like, "Why do you shoot your presidents?" He said it is improper to ask him to discuss Soviet internal affairs...
Brown came right back and continued to apply pressure to the Crimson defensemen but again were unable to sneak one by Damiani. Fullbacks Ralph Earle, Billy Forbush and Sandy Cardin forced most Brown offenders to shoot from beyond the penalty area...
...pointed a gun at me and said 'Don't say a word or I'll shoot,'" she continued. Then the robber demanded that Kahn empty the register and put all the money in a brown paper...