Word: shootout
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...archaeologists, historians and war buffs are braving rattlesnakes and ticks to help set the record straight about perhaps the least documented shootout in U.S. history. They are brandishing metal detectors and trowels in a foot-by-foot survey of the historic ground. One reason there has never been a thorough investigation of the battlefield is that until last August it was covered by two-foot-tall stands of buffalo grass. A careless smoker changed that, starting a fire that denuded the site. Since digging began two weeks ago, 550 artifacts, from an Army boot to several limb bones, have been...
Neither team scored for the first 25 minutes of bruising hockey, a marked difference from the 8-5 shootout in the third game...
...wasn't pretty, it wasn't scrappy, it wasn't especially well-pitched, but most importantly, yesterday's 14-10 shootout with Connecticut wasn't a loss for the Harvard baseball team...
...leader urged Americans not to make "common cause for any purpose, however speciously well meaning, with people who advocate or condone the use of violence in Ireland for political ends." One of those people, Dominic "Mad Dog" McGlinchey, 29, Ireland's most wanted terrorist, was captured after a shootout with police near Shannon Airport on St. Patrick...
...Packard, Digital Equipment, NCR and IBM erected booths that dwarfed those of all but the biggest software firms. Apple's stand featured a 12-ft. scale model of its new Macintosh machine, and Chairman Steven Jobs delivered a keynote speech that tried to cast the event as a shootout between Apple...