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Word: shoots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...havens on the other side. Others are waiting for the bombing to stop on Aug. 15 before they join the exodus. Many of the middle class now would seem to welcome the end of the corrupt government of Lon Nol. "The first thing the insurgents will do is shoot the profiteers and the corrupt people," says one Khmer, "and that will be a good move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Phnom-Penh: Packing Their Bags | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

...that endangered the lives of all aboard and caused Israel to go on military alert. Fearing that the jumbo jet might be used in a kamikaze attack on one of their cities, the Israelis were prepared, if it came too close, to black out their entire country or even shoot the plane down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Flight to Nowhere | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

...still very much the sharecropper's son from Darrtown (pop. 300), Ohio, who used to ride a pony bareback to school. In the off-season he and his wife Lela return to their modest home in Darrtown, where, he says, "I can stand in my back door and shoot chicken hawks off the fence." His winters are spent bird hunting, skeet shooting, playing bridge, woodworking, shooting pool and riding his five-gaited horses with his two grandchildren. "They never took the country out of this boy," he says proudly. "I wouldn't trade my off-season living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boss of the Babes | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

THERE IS no story and no particular plot. This movie is just a documentary on shoot-outs, with little time spent on the criminals themselves. How do they live? What do they do with their illgotten gains? All we see are some gun fights shot in gory detail, "realistic" to the point of queasiness (but really not of horror, because we're made not to give a damn...

Author: By Tina Sutton, | Title: Dillinger Dies a Dummy | 8/2/1973 | See Source »

...Purvis is obsessed with killing all of the biggest bank robbers who are responsible for killing a G-man friend of his in a jail break. This G-man had once given Purvis a box of expensive Havana cigars. Purvis phallically puffs on one of the Havanas at the shoot-out killings of each of his sworn enemies. In Sergant Friday-monotone, he relates in voice-over the location and date of each shooting. He personally (with hundreds of cops standing behind him) shoots his victims with a lighted cigar hanging from his mouth. The cigar goes out once...

Author: By Tina Sutton, | Title: Dillinger Dies a Dummy | 8/2/1973 | See Source »

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