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Word: shoots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seattle Slew wins the Triple Crown, I'll shoot the first person who nominates it (note IT, not HIM) for athlete of the Year. Anymore glorification of horses and we'll be eating human rather than horse meat at our friendly fast-food dispensers. By the way, don't bet on Seattle Slew in the Belmont Stakes. Rumor has it that the odds are going to be so low that if Slew wins, the bettor pays the track...

Author: By Sandy Cardin, | Title: Of Shoes, and Ships, and Sealing Wax | 5/24/1977 | See Source »

...learned that the Galante-Dellacroce conflict is ranging from Manhattan to Canada. The first casualties were two Galante spies discovered among Dellacroce's followers. The Little Lamb acted quickly to get rid of the black sheep; their bodies have not been found. Next, Dellacroce sent gunmen to Harlem to shoot a number of heroin dealers?then spread the word that Galante had ordered the hits. Dellacroce's goal was to disrupt Galante's connections with black Narcotics King Leroy ("Nicky") Barnes. Federal agents arrested Barnes on March 16, confiscating $1 million worth of heroin (he was released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE MAFIA Big, Bad and Booming | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...market on a limited basis in the fall after 30 years of experimenting. So Land put on a show that lived up to his own dry comment: "Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess." Each of the 3,800 shareholders present in Needham, Mass., got a chance to shoot films of jugglers, clowns and dancing girls, then see the film projected seconds later. Dubbing his new creation Polavision, Land pronounced it "a new technology to relate ourselves to life and to each other." He slipped only once, when he tried to insert a film cassette backward into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHOTOGRAPHY: At Long Last, Land's Instant Movies | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

Then goalie Sukie MacGraw pulled another in a string of unbelievable saves, thwarting a Jumbo fast break that looked like a free shot at the net. Coming way out of the goal, MacGraw hit the stick of the lone attacker as she spun around to shoot and knocked out the ball...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: 'Cliffe Laxwomen Sneak by Tufts, 7-6 | 5/4/1977 | See Source »

Until the administration is sure the Faculty favors some sort of reform, it will probably continue to present the Faculty with a moving target that is impossible to shoot down with an all-or-nothing vote...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: Faculty Plans to Cast Critical Vote On Core Curriculum Proposal Today | 5/3/1977 | See Source »

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