Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bombed and buses overturned to make barricades. Arriving in Belfast for a "learn-and-listen" visit, British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling heard enough to convince him that the new Tory government had inherited a cankerous problem. In the Protestant area around Shankill Road, a housewife cried out to Maudling: "Shoot them down in the Falls Road [the city's principal Catholic area], and we'll give you all a nice...
...that held Northern Ireland together, it seemed, was the British army. Eleven thousand tommies under General Sir Ian Freeland patrolled Belfast and Londonderry and enforced a strict nighttime curfew. After the riots, General Freeland ordered his men to shoot to kill civilians carrying weapons. For a few days, such strict measures helped avert fresh outbursts in Belfast, even though 12,000 Protestants marched there in parades commemorating the 1916 Battle of the Somme in which 5,000 Ulstermen died. At week's end, however, pitched battles erupted between Catholics and troops who had discovered a cache of hidden weapons...
...Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Breslin...
...another $150 fine for conduct unbecoming a grump. After blasting their way out of a Sahara of sand traps in the first round, some players were also ready to blast Jones for the 40 m.p.h. winds that caused such stars as Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Nicklaus to shoot 79, 80 and 81 respectively. Said Lee Trevino: "If anyone shoots 281 on this course, the Pope is a possum...
...Deliverance, Dickey (3) 4. Great Lion of God, Caldwell (5) 5. Losing Battles, Welty (4) 6. Calico Palace, Bristow (6) 7. Travels with My Aunt, Greene (8) 8. The Lord Won't Mind, Merrick 9. The Crystal Palace, Stewart 10. The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Breslin...