Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other vehicles were blocked outside town by fallen-tree barricades and 4-ft. ditches dug across the blacktop road. The soldiers managed to shoot down about 50 Bengalis before they were overpowered and hacked to death by peasants. A few soldiers escaped but were later captured and killed...
...consistency will be central to the Crimson hopes for a decent season, especially considering this year's shift from match to medal play. Harvard must quickly find at least five players-since the top five of seven scores are added up to get the team total-who can shoot well almost every day. Otherwise the squad will be relying on "a hot day" each time...
...then telephoned the provost marshal at Fort Sill, who explained that he had no jurisdiction; both men were released. Retired Major General Raymond Hufft, a much-decorated Louisianan, said that at the time he led his battalion across the Rhine in World War II he gave orders to shoot anything that moved. "If Germany had won," he said, "I would have been on trial at Nuremberg instead of the krauts." In Anchorage, Alaska, Glen Roberts turned in to the local Army recruiter the Bronze Star he had won in Viet...
...Army has never suggested that the enemy's atrocities justify those by Americans. In practice, though, military courts sometimes follow the unofficial "mere gook" rule, which devalues Vietnamese lives. One Army captain was accused of murder after ordering a trooper to shoot a captured Viet Cong. The court was told that he had commanded: "I don't care about prisoners. I want a body count. I want that man shot." Nevertheless the captain was acquitted...
Visually interesting footage still carries editorial weight that can sway news judgment. Example: one night last week, NBC Producer Robert Mulholland rejected a plane-crash story with the comment, "No flames in the film. Too quiet." But generally, the networks have matured since the days when "Shoot bloody" was the watchword of Viet Nam War coverage, and they are constantly evaluating their own performance. Last week NBC News President Reuven Frank reminded his staff in a memo that "misleading practice" has been forbidden for years and noted, "I get as weary of being called on to be Caesar...