Word: shots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...license. Onlooker Carl Williams, 34, a homeless black man with mental problems, objected to the white officer's action. The two argued, then scuffled. Williams grabbed the officer's revolver. As the policeman pleaded for his life, voices from the gathering crowd yelled, "Shoot him! Shoot him!" Williams shot Chase in the face and strolled away, then returned and fired twice more at the dying officer. Soon after, two off-duty policemen fatally wounded Williams...
...Selling of the President 1968, Joe McGinnis sketched a scene of Richard Nixon backstage at the Mike Douglas Show in 1967. "It's a shame a man has to use gimmicks like this to get elected," Nixon said to Roger Ailes, the program's producer. Ailes, then 28, shot back, "Television is not a gimmick." The following year, Ailes was hired to help create the "new" Nixon. In 1984 he helped prepare Ronald Reagan for his second debate with Walter Mondale, giving him the effective quip "I'm not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth...
...accent was also on conciliation. Autonomy talks between the Sandinistas and the largest armed group of Miskito Indians resumed after a hiatus of almost three years. The Sandinistas authorized 14 radio and print organizations to begin or resume operations, and released U.S. Pilot James Denby, whose plane was shot down over Nicaragua two months ago. The Sandinistas downed another craft last weekend, this one a DC-6 contra-supply plane, which resulted in at least four deaths. The one captured crew member, Alejandro Sanchez, confirmed Nicaraguan charges that contra-supply operations continue to operate out of Honduras' Swan Island...
...away from his anchor duties and left the network blank for more than six minutes. The tightly coiled anchorman, a combustible character in the coolest of mediums, seemed almost to spring out of his chair, unsettling his audience with high-voltage intensity. It was video High Noon: Bush had shot down the legendary media gunslinger from Black Rock. It was the new George Bush. Not Bush the perpetual stand-in, but Bush the stand-up guy. Bush Unbound. Bush Unwimped...
...designer-to-be was particularly impressed by his grandfather, whom he describes as "very arrogant, like an actor." It is now a secure part of fashion legend that one day the old man asked Christian what he would like to be when he grew up. "Christian Dior," he shot back...