Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dilatory Approach. The battles were not yet over, and it seemed likely that the Senate was about to deny the President his welfare reform and trade quotas, and might still shoot down the SST. It had not even bothered to consider one of his most desired programs: a system of sharing federal tax revenues with the states. It had so altered another Nixon reform, a manpower retraining act designed to consolidate various antipoverty programs, that the President last week vetoed the resulting bill. His main complaint was that it provided too much money for what he called "dead-end, W.P.A...
...announce a dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed by the Presidium of the Provincial Council; public gatherings were also banned. In addition, the Presidium appealed to "civic consciousness to guarantee peace in our town." It warned that it would utilize "all means" to restore order and told militiamen to shoot to kill. Despite the tough measures-and Warsaw's initial effort to keep silent about the protests-word of the riot spread quickly throughout Poland; Gdansk itself remained in turmoil for three days...
Hate-Filled. It should have come as no surprise that the shooting of Nguyen Van Minh resulted in two cathartic days of rioting by the hurt, hate-filled Vietnamese. Hostility has long been festering in South Viet Nam, on both sides. The Armed Forces Radio exhorts G.I.s daily not to toss cans at Vietnamese motorists. U.S. officials have never denied the existence of a contingency plan in case the withdrawing Americans have to shoot their way to the beaches through hostile South Vietnamese...
After the shooting of Nguyen Van Minh, Vietnamese police and American M.P.s quickly halted the truck involved. Pfc. Matias Yzaguirre Jr., 22, a Mexican American from Brownsville, Texas, was sent to the Danang stockade, charged with negligent homicide. Shock among Minh's schoolmates turned to outrage when U.S. officials insisted that the shooting had been accidental. "It was no accident," said a witness. "He wanted to shoot...
Ragging the rich is an old, though declining" sport. If Wolfe merely ran on like that, he might be dismissed as a frivolous type who has done little more than shoot fish in a brandy snifter. Happily, the gathering−and with it Tom Wolfe's look-homeward-recording-angel prose−Soon begins to reflect depths of confusion and true social comedy. There is a remarkable moment when Panther Defense Minister Don Cox talks of police harassment, evoking the Reichstag fire (blacks now, Jews next is the thought), then reads the Declaration of Independence to justify talk about...