Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unusual report, the F.B.I. went about the messy business of explaining their mistake and justifying their extreme response. Officials explained that the report, received from a credible source (the description "credible" was repeated numerous times--justifications, Dr. Freud?), came only a few days before the fourth anniversary of the shootout near Waco, Tex., an ideal time for another incident. Furthermore, William Carter, spokesperson for the F.B.I. in Washington explained, "Recent tragedies resulting from criminal terrorist acts require a heightened vigilance...
This sparked a Harvard shooting spree that looked like a wild western shootout, but still no Harvard goals...
...closest contest of the weekend, the IM soccer battle was reduced to a lesson in penalty kicks as Winthrop and Timothy Dwight went into a shootout after tying 2-2 in regulation and remaining scoreless through two five-minute overtimes...
...setting over this frigid, high tension duel, Winthrop proceeded to find the back of the net on all five shootout attempts...
Bhutto has seen her fortunes fall and rise and rise and fall. Recently her image has been tarnished by allegations of her husband's corruption and an unseemly political feud with her mother and brother, who was killed in a police shootout in September. But she retains a haughty sense of her own fate and prerogatives, and if Leghari's complaints do not bar her from running, she will challenge her dismissal at the polls. "I am not one of those leaders who sell lies and buy time," she told TIME recently. "No leader, no dictator could do what...