Word: sniper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William L. ("The Man") Dawson, 80, seeking a 13th term, was opposed by Negro Social Worker Fred Hubbard, 37. Though Dawson was the favorite, Hubbard was expected to make a strong showing, partly out of sympathy because he was shot in the shoulder during the campaign by an unknown sniper. He was hurt politically even worse by Dawson, who was reelected...
...such inducements as "the largest and most luxurious air-raid shelter in the Near East, with excellent acoustics." Leonard Bernstein conducted one concert during an attack by Egyptian bombers in 1948; Sir Malcolm Sargent, traveling to a performance in Jerusalem in 1937, was nearly picked off by an Arab sniper. Often the orchestra traveled in armored cars, was so hard pressed on one occasion that it played a series of concerts without a conductor. But the Israel Philharmonic thrived-so well, in fact, that today it has the largest number of subscribers (32,600) and one of the longest seasons...
...pawns was enough to set ten of us moving. We left the compound, hands in the air, moving slowly toward where we expected the government lines to be in the darkness. We chanted 'Bao chi, bao chi [press, press], no shoot!' The reply was nervous giggles. Two sniper bullets whined by. We took cover on the edge of the road, then moved out again. Then all hell broke loose, triggered by which side it was impossible to tell...
...left leg off. On another occasion a masked intruder shot a woman in the hand, carried her into the woods and tried to rape her-but was impotent and broke into tears. Police questioned Bicycle Bill but could get no evidence that he was "the Mountain Man," as the sniper-molester came to be called. Besides, most people considered Bill harmless, if "tetched...
...indirectly at the militant Buddhists. The clash began with the lightning predawn "invasion" of rebellious Danang by Vietnamese marines loyal to Premier Ky. Soon all the sound and fury of incipient civil war had enveloped the crucial northern base town: the clank of tank treads, the rattle of sniper fire, the sodden plop of tear-gas grenades, the sudden sky-shaking roar of strafing aircraft. Danang's chaotic clangor had its echoes in Saigon, where Buddhist demonstrators took fitfully to the streets-only to be dispersed by tough, green-clad riot cops. But beneath the sound and fury...