Word: shoots
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other New York City patrolmen only days before, have prompted both thoughtless and thoughtful responses. Edward J. Kiernan, president of the New York Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, advised "every member assigned to a radio car to purchase a shotgun, keep it loaded," and, if need be, "shoot to kill...
...Johnson saw a conspiracy building. On the fatal day, he was ordered to unload the ovens, a job generally conceded to be the worst in the plant. He refused and was suspended. An hour later he was back in the plant, ready, in the words of one worker, "to shoot at everyone wearing a white shirt...
...during the black-and-white-television era. He was, he said, fighting for a Cuba where "everyone could assemble, associate, speak and write with complete freedom." Now in his 13th year of power, "the Horse" (as Cubans call Castro) has already found it necessary, by his own admission, to shoot 3,500 of his countrymen and imprison 20,000 more...
...mishap came in the mile run. Defending champion Jon Enscoe, running in the inside line, fell some 20 yards from the starting line when he was forced into the side rail by runners jockeying for position. His fall was greeted by shouts from the crowd for the officials to "shoot the gun" and recall the race...
...Harvard performance. After serving in Korea and Vietnam, he returned to Cambridge and in 1968 garnered a magna for a history thesis on Nixon. Except for scientists, Sloan admires few academicians, imagining the thoughts of the professors who gave him his magna: "Here's a promising young off-shoot of our own bull-shit...