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Word: shootings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scored his first professional goal in the Stoners final playoff game of the 1979 season, the league semi-finals, which his club lost on the basis of a penalty kick shoot...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: In the Pros, Ost is Still the Most | 10/19/1979 | See Source »

...recruits, whose desolate backgrounds may have deprived them of a childhood, begin playing their lethal game. Victims are selected at random: women, children and frail men who cannot fight back. The murderers shoot or stab from behind, often leaving their victims in agony. They chortle over each attack, showing remorse only when they fail to kill. Then their eyes fill with tears. The more blood they shed, the more they seem to crave. One youth is picked up on the street, taken back to the loft and butchered piece by piece. The remains are trussed up like a frozen turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kill! Kill! Kill! | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...Moustafa Khalil pounded his fist on the table and barked that "good faith" had been "shattered" by the Israeli decision to allow its citizens to purchase land on the West Bank. Israeli Minister of the Interior Yosef Burg sarcastically retorted that the Egyptians were "using a big gun to shoot a small bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Battles, Plans and Travels | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...strike breaks out in a never-before-mentioned-factory, Isabelle Huppert, last seen as the sodomized mistress of Rousseau, now appears as an aspiring diva, singing Bouvier's favorite ballad-off-key, and the entire striking mob is bathed in a Hallmark card glow. The police prepare to shoot and the screen goes black as these significant words appear: "in the year that Joseph Bouvier killed twelve children, 16,000 died in the mines of France." Both facts are terrible; is Tavernier suggesting that Bouvier should not have been prosecuted since his tally was so small? The obscurity...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: Gross and Stupid | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

...Shoot alors! as the French might say. Who was that pulchritudinous paparazza, knee to floor, eye to Pentax, fighting for focusing space at Paris' men's ready-to-wear fashion show? It was British Actress Charlotte Rampling (The Night Porter) on assignment for Vogue Hommes. Rampling discovered still cameras two years ago. Since then, she has been shooting whenever she isn't being shot for the movies. "Photography is like a time span of all the people I love and meet," she explains. Due in New York this week to begin work in Woody Allen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 1, 1979 | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

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