Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prosecution witnesses swore that they saw Mitchell standing at the ditch, and that they heard rifle fire. But neither could swear that they saw Mitchell shoot anyone. The third, Radioman Charles Sledge, said he was "positive" he saw Mitchell firing at the civilians. Mitchell's civilian defense attorney, Ossie B. Brown, discredited Sledge's account, quoting testimony Sledge gave to Army investigators: "I believe it was Sgt. Mitchell firing into the ditch." The testimony of a prosecution witness, Dennis Conti, was weakened when fellow Army witnesses swore that they had heard Conti declare: "He [Mitchell] tried...
...York Newspaper Guild. The auto raises are also below the 37% increase over three years that a presidential commission recommended last week for four railroad unionsand that the unions rejected as not enough. But the auto contract provides a new minimum target for other unions to shoot at. Ford and Chrysler will undoubtedly settle on essentially the same terms, and the union will seek to apply the G.M. formula to farm-machinery manufacturers...
East Coast candidates, particularly in Ivy schools, are better known among their Harvard colleagues, and in the present democratic "shoot 'em down" consultations, less likely to survive. Ironically, names associated with Eastern universities are therefore more likely to be the strongest candidates...
...whom made it to the finals because they were not charismatic enough to make enemies. "They should have kept a tighter circle of advisors," he said. "In their search for credibility, the Corporation overextended itself; and if you look hard enough, you're bound to find someone to shoot the man down...
...authentic act to validate his totally pure ideology of revolution. Caught in a staggering struggle with his past and his ideal, his identity and his apotheosis, he ends up with "dirty hands." He stamps out the hydra of revisionism, in the person of Hoederer, but he can only shoot Hoederer after a conflation of damning circumstances have, so to speak, unhinged him. But is he really unhinged since he doesn't actually pull the trigger until jealousy, a bourgeois passion, has set off some passional reflex deep down in his basically bourgeois soul? He sees Hoederer, the ideological enemy, kiss...