Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gang "arranged for people to write to Chiang Ch'ing affirming their oath of fealty," while the lady herself was reportedly "so eager she couldn't sit still." Another member of the gang was so confident of the plot's success that he had a photographer shoot "standard portraits" of the gang for publication when it took office. The paper further charged that in their plot to usurp state power, the four were prepared "to kill" certain people-presumably Hua and other members of the Central Committee...
...said, had offered him bribes to recant. Moreover, two former defense witnesses backed up the prosecution's contention that either Carter or his former lawyer tried to cook up a phony alibi; they testified this time that they were not with Carter at the time of the shoot...
...deep grudge against a prominent neighboring Jewish family over a business dispute. Menten went home to Holland in 1939, when Russia invaded eastern Poland, and returned in 1941 after the Nazi counter-occupation-this time as a member of the SS. In Galicia, according to witnesses, he helped shoot as many members of the offending family as he could find, then turned on other Jews in the area...
...Washington," he told a journalists' club last April, "is a place where the truth is not necessarily the best defense. It surely runs a poor second to the statute of limitations." His job, he observed on another occasion, was "to walk down the middle of the street and shoot windows out on both sides." He seldom missed, but the affection and the accolades that came his way never turned his head. He belonged, he once said, to "the dirty-fingernail set as opposed to the folk heroes of TV. I'm a working stiff, a shoe-leather...
...national newscast, falls victim to the twin evils of booze and declining ratings, and Max Schumacher (William Holden), the head of UBS News, tells him he has to go. Suffering a momentary nervous breakdown, Beale goes on air to announce that in a week's time he will shoot himself on-camera. He has, he says, run out of the "bullshit" that kept him going...