Word: shooting
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...only thing you can do against a hot goalie is to shoot the puck. If we can pepper him with 15 shots a period, we're bound to get some goals," McCarthy said. "And we need to have a screen man in front of the net. I don't care how hot a goalie is, if he can't see the shot, he can't save...
...table to my right, two gentlemen pursue the affections of two female strangers. They are striking out. Without much effort at concealment the women shoot each other disgusted glances. When they excuse themselves and head for the ladies room, I move in and introduce myself to the gents. I ask them how they think they're doing. "In the bag," they respond confidently. I ask them what they do for a living. "We're students at the Law School," they respond confidently. These guys have never had sex, I conclude confidently, and return to my game of darts...
Placing the burden of stopping the "rampant epidemic of new McCarthyism," on students, Heston asked, "who will defend the core value of academia if you supposed soldiers of free thought and expression lay down your arms and plead 'don't shoot...
MICHAEL O'NEILL and DIANA WALKER, two veteran photographers, together captured the telling pictures of Greenspan, Rubin and Summers that appear in this week's issue. O'Neill had only 25 minutes to shoot the cover image of the three, who had never before posed together. One of America's premier portraitists, O'Neill composes artistic yet journalistic images that convey a message quickly and clearly, as a cover must. Walker, a TIME photographer since 1979, has captured six White House News Photographer awards for pictures of the First Family. Her ability to gain a subject's trust allows...
...other instruments had to be light, but the collector had to be ingenious. Although the probe will loop two times around the sun to help it match orbits with the comet, Stardust and Wild 2 will still shoot past each other at nearly 4 miles per second, 10 times as fast as a speeding bullet. In order to catch dust particles without disintegrating them, Jet Propulsion Lab engineer Peter Tsou first thought of making a trap out of Styrofoam; he figured dust would bury itself harmlessly inside. Unfortunately, says Tsou, "cosmic dust particles are so small that on Styrofoam...