Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beri-Beri. Once he was shifted to rear echelon forces, he was treated more harshly. "At one point, I was told that if I had a nightmare and cried out once more in my sleep they would shoot me." The behavior of his captors varied considerably. "The range went from the saintly to something out of the Marquis de Sade. Some I would invite into my own home. Others I would like to take back of the woodshed and only one of us would return." There was the doctor who saved his life when he went into convulsions after bouts...
Cecil decided that he would shoot a few frames of the Inauguration from the stands behind the President, where he had recorded other Inaugurations. He dug out his big plaid coat, called a Wooldea, purchased for $19.95 the previous fall in Canada. Its bright blue and brown would liven a dull...
...natural instincts as a photographer took over, and since the Secret Service man who had dislodged him now ignored him, Cecil stopped a few feet behind the President, took off his beaver hat, dropped down on his knees, hoisted his Nikon and began to shoot. Nixon's arm was up. Pat held the Bibles. The oath rang out. Nixon...
...proud of it, and I don't believe it's helpful," said one Israeli diplomat in a guarded comment. With national elections coming up in the fall, government leaders painstakingly dissociated themselves from any responsibility for what was finally described as a "military decision" to shoot down the plane. In fact, the young but experienced Phantom pilots had radioed for instructions before each move. At a weekend press conference in Tel Aviv, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan carefully separated himself from the events in Sinai. He did say, however, that his government would welcome an investigation of the incident...
...standard, which Nixon must have known was coming, obviously risks giving a new spin to the destructive wage-price spiral. United Rubber Workers President Peter Bommarito, who will be negotiating several important contracts later this year, told colleagues in Florida that he plans to shoot for a 10% pay raise in the first year of each new pact. An implied tie between wage increases and the cost of living would almost surely prompt union negotiators to press for extra-high wage boosts, since the Government's consumer price index has lately taken some big jumps. In January it rose...