Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every year, according to the U.S. Justice Department, the Philadelphia police shoot an average of 75 people, which contributes heavily to the force's image as one of the toughest in the nation. This reputation is a source of pride to Mayor Frank Rizzo, who was a cop for 28 years. On a visit to Italy in 1977, he declared that the best way to deal with criminals is "spacco il capo," which can be loosely translated as "break heads...
Some enthusiasts opt for style over speed, combining tail dips and pirouettes in a kind of elegant water ballet. In Hawaii, super wind-surfers specialize in "wave jumps": they sail directly into a wave, up the crest and over, becoming airborne for a few seconds as they shoot through the foam into calm water beyond. Indeed, wind-surfers can do anything surfers or sailors can on their vessels, almost. Says Craig Roberton of Clearwater: "This sport has only one flaw. There's no way to hold onto a beer on a sailboat like that...
...want to know everything." Ingrid Bergman complained that she did not know how to act toward the two men because she didn't know her fate. Screenwriter Julius Epstein told her simply, "As soon as we know, we'll let you know." Finally, the director decided to shoot both endings. The first exit-Bergman flying off with Henreid-left Bogart looking so good and noble and selfless that the second ending was never filmed. Though Bogart lost the girl, he did win Claude Rains and one of the most famous fadeout lines in cinema: "Louis, I think this...
...bespectacled Galante, nicknamed "Lillo" or "Cigar," looked more like a grandfather than a godfather. Nonetheless, a Mafia source once told TIME: "Lillo would shoot you in church during High Mass." Galante spent almost half of his life behind bars, starting at ten when he was sent to reform school as an incorrigible delinquent. At 17 he was sentenced to Sing Sing prison for assault. By 1952 he had become a high-ranking enforcer for Bonnano. Because Galante spoke French, Spanish and several Italian dialects, he often acted as the family's emissary in overseas assignments to arrange multimillion-dollar...
...there." An ad hoc Spokane, Wash., group called the Skylab Self-Defense Society hung a 15-ft. bull's-eye on the side of a downtown office building and suggested, "Make Spokane the target for Skylab's landing. If you give the Government a target to shoot at, it's bound to miss. That is our greatest protection." Throughout the U.S., Skylab "survival kits," usually including plastic helmets and targets, were selling well. There were also numerous office lotteries based on when or where Skylab would fall. At the White House, Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell was said to have...