Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan [Dec. 8] is the right man in the right job at the right time. Far from being a "shoot-from-the-hip Wyatt Earp," he is an unerring marksman, judging from the cries of pain from his targets...
When people go to prison because they walked into a store with a gun and held it up, they have given up their right to have any rights. I don't give a **'$? about their gripes. Just shoot them when they riot. That will put a stop...
Moore, who was dressed in turtleneck blouse, navy vest, striped pants and the same brown boots she wore the day she tried to shoot Ford, was pressed by Conti on whether she had acted entirely on her own. "On that particular date I was acting alone," she replied. "How about on some other date?" Conti persisted. "I'm not going to answer that," Moore answered cryptically. Conti later suggested that if she provided details of any conspiracy, her sentence would be lightened. Some observers suggest that Moore fired at Ford in hopes of reingratiating herself with her radical friends...
...Sacramento the following day, Lynette Alice ("Squeaky") Fromme, 27, faced sentencing for having tried to shoot Ford with a .45-cal. pistol in the city's Capitol Park last Sept. 5. Fromme, a member of the bizarre "family" of convicted Murderer Charles Manson, carried over her arm the same red robe she had worn on that day, as well as an apple ("For you, your honor," she said when U.S. District Court Judge Thomas J. MacBride noticed it). After U.S. Attorney Dwayne Keyes recommended severe punishment because she was full of "hate and violence," Squeaky hurled the apple...
...less demanding and more acquiescent than fathers-and Southerners far more easygoing than Northerners. In fact, among the Southern gentry, children were virtually handed over to an assorted collection of nurses, tutors and servants who catered to their needs, taught them good manners and civility, how to ride, hunt, shoot, how to read the contemporary equivalent (the classics) of the right books. Usually the children were brought in to be with their parents for only an hour or two at night...