Word: shooting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chooses its leaders through an election process known as “the turkey shoot,” in which all outgoing executives are invited to participate. A successful candidate must receive at least 75 percent of the vote...
...give a damn about what's happening to us," said Angela Butler, 49, a school custodian who, after going on disability two years ago when she suffered a stroke, refinanced her four-bedroom Miami Gardens house to a lower, adjustable rate - only to see her monthly payment shoot up almost $1,100 this year. "All the dominoes are falling on top of us out here," Butler added, gripping her cane, "and they're just sitting up there behind their desks takin' care of the banks...
...appear to be well. His skin appeared sallow. His eyes were almost gelatinous. His handshake seemed rather weak, and when he spoke there was a constant undercurrent of paranoia. He even seemed to put a figurative gun in the hands of us journalists, saying we don't need to shoot him, that our words have that kind of effect. He was clearly viewing himself as a martyr and it was very bothersome to realize that over 900 lives were in the hands of this...
...could not have formed the intent to commit suicide. Second, Jim Jones had isolated his people and conditioned them through suicide rehearsals and mock sieges to accept death. Third, he orchestrated the events on that final day so that the outcome was never in doubt. He had gunmen go shoot the Congressman. Then he turned around to his followers, once he got news the Congressman was dead, and announced it. He said, now some among us have done something that's going to cause the army to come in here and nobody will be safe. Let's bring forward...
...right to their dreams,” goes the opening chorus.It’s a twisted, carnivalesque historical outlook that’s made visually literal by the set design of Sally H. Rinehart ’09 and Davone J Tines ’09. A Presidential shooting gallery—“Shoot a Prez! Win a prize!”—sits center stage, and a twinkling Ferris wheel looms to the right. This is the kind of timeless, dreamy setting that could only exist in a theater.It...