Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fellow played a game of ping pong with me. He kept score and he didn't cheat or try to bully me over close calls. After I beat him, by two points, he shook my hand and said "good game" and went to shoot pool...
...game amounted to a turkey shoot in front of the Harvard net as the Bruins took fifty shots on goal. The undefeated Brown squad powered past the listless Crimson skaters to a 7-1 lead in the second period, then coasted to their eleventh win of the season...
...book an old couple watch their son's coffin winched out of a grave. The woman shouts "I believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ." The man yells, "Shut up." In the solemn eyes of Henry Soames, where everything has some value, and you "don't shoot at everything that moves on the theory it might be a rattler," even this scene loses its farcical element...
...Shoot to Kill. The Times of London, among others, last week directly blamed Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi for underwriting much of the terrorism, including the Dec. 17 massacre at Rome and an earlier Shootout at Athens International Airport. Gaddafi, who last week jointly announced his decision to merge his country with neighboring Tunisia, probably does give some oil money to the guerrillas, and provides them with haven from time to time. But it is an open question among intelligence agencies whether Gaddafi himself directly orders such terrorism. Many European authorities would just as soon not find out, since Europe...
...thoroughly examined. Tempelhof Airport in West Berlin uses a code to indicate to air crews if any embarking passengers are Arab. At Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, overhead walkways have been closed off, and armed soldiers patrol them. Most airports have marks men on hand with orders to shoot to kill if anything commences that looks like terrorism...