Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prefer to call it by its original name. However, Harvard's clubs survive. In spite of what the admissions committee might call the "democratization" of the Harvard student body, there are enough "legacies" (sons of old members), unfreaked out preppies, rich foreigners, social climbers, and sophomores who like to shoot pool and get drunk to keep the club houses populated. And because of the "democratization" of Harvard (and Creeping Socialism, hippie weirdos and pushy Radcliffe girls) there are a considerable number of wealthy alumni who give more money to their clubs than to Harvard...
...years (twelve of them in prison, including 71 years for the murder, with five other men, of an Ulster policeman in 1942). Easily slipping across the border from the north, Cahill showed up in Dublin, where he told newsmen that his organization intended to shoot as many British soldiers in Northern Ireland as possible...
...crowd of jeering youths who poured gasoline over one of the scout cars. Moments later, as the vehicle blazed, a corporal scrambled out and jumped quickly into the other car. Finally, after 30 minutes of agonized waiting, the soldiers warned the crowd, "Move or we'll shoot," and managed to escape for the moment...
Enrico steeped himself in Satchmo's music. In 1968, he even met the great Armstrong, and played the Basin Street Blues for him. "Boy, you got some chops there!" growled the flabbergasted Louis. For two weeks Armstrong had Enrico as his backstage guest, teaching him to shoot craps and offering sporadic worldly advice: "Don't marry any woman who don't dig your horn...
...Johnny glower at each other a great deal, then settle down into the kind of edgy friendship that is good for about 15 minutes of running time. Eventually both men are needled by the bloodthirsty townspeople and driven by thier own sense of honor, competition and greed to shoot it out. Instead of humdrum showdown on main Street at high noon Johnny and Kirk decide to go for their guns in a bullring conveniently located at the edge of town. Tickets will be sold, faster gun takes the proceeds. The spectators in the bullring may get a lot for their...