Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PEOPLE COULD identify with the logic of the Johnson murders because they faced the same day-to-day fear and humiliation. When there are a thousand ways to lash out against the systematized caprice of a workplace like that, moral absolutes like "you don't shoot your boss" are turned to mush. There's a special bond between James Johnson and the countless other Rachel Scott describes as people and cites as numbers in her extended piece of journalism about industrial accidents and diseases. A special bond that calls for special terms, like James Johnson's terms, and the terms...
...Lucien's death is its social context. We shouldn't so much be concerned with judging the rights and wrongs of his actions, but with removing his motivations. It is the social injustice Lucien confronts that must be remembered--and corrected--if we don't wish to have to shoot Lucien again, or, next time around, be shot...
...hardening his gut by doing sit-ups with his legs held up at a 45 degree angle or while his limbs were pumping back and forth in a bicycle-pedaling motion. Now he was simply letting Foreman punch himself out against that iron flesh. "I wanted to make him shoot his best shots," said Ali later...
...conference and is expected to speed to the White House shortly would require that almost one-third of all oil imported into the U.S. be brought in aboard American-made ships, rather than lower-cost foreign vessels. The measure surely would cause the price of landed foreign oil to shoot still higher; whether President Ford vetoes it will provide a test of how much political flak he is willing to brave in order to keep living costs down...
...hailed them as the latest example of space-age technology benefiting life on earth. One satellite, dubbed AT56 (for Applications Technology Satellite), is relaying educational TV programs to remote regions; the other, SM51 (Synchronous Meteorological Satellite), is a new breed of weather satellite equipped with infrared cameras that can shoot remarkably detailed cloud pictures even at night...