Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protesters and Wallace started speaking. The troopers were standing off in the background with their shiny pistols hitched to their hips and were getting a little worried now because the boos were growing louder. About halfway through, one starts coming over to me looking like he wants to shoot his way out. But he says, 'Mr. Tonis, ah believe we'd be interested in takin' a look at those tunnels you mentioned...
...They shoot 20 rounds at a silhouette and give the target to Tonis, who scrutinizies the results and decides whether they qualify. They keep shooting until they get Tonis' approval, but this is all a little superfluous when you realize that Harvard police have only fired their guns on two occasions in the last 20 years...
...Shoot to Kill. The Justice Department report may well form the basis for a federal grand jury's re-examination of the case, a move being demanded by many at the university and elsewhere. That demand will undoubtedly receive impetus as the result of a startling interview given by Seabury Ford, Republican Party chairman of Portage County, where the grand jury met, and one of three special prosecutors in the case. His words provided substantial evidence for the charge by many at the university that the grand jury indictments and its sweeping condemnation of campus life reflected rabid political...
...interview in the Detroit Free Press, Ford said that the National Guardsmen on the campus last May "should have shot all" troublemakers, and that the incidents were Communist-inspired. "I think the whole damn country is not going to quiet down until the police are ordered to shoot to kill." Of the Kent shootings, he said: "The point is, it stopped the riot-you can't argue with that. It just stopped it flat." As Ford spoke, according to Reporter William Schmidt, he toyed with a .45-cal. pistol he keeps near his desk and kidded: "I could shoot...
...least 60 political killings, by both the left and the right. Most of the radical M.P.D. (Dominican Popular Movement) leaders have been killed or have escaped to Cuba. That has left the field open to so-called "clandestine commandos," M.P.D. dropouts and bandits who have been known to shoot a policeman just...