Word: snipering
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Less noticeable than the police surrounding the royal entourage, but no less pervasive, were bomb-sniffing dogs, anti-sniper riflemen, and a host of security agents ranging from Harvard's own to Britain's Scotland Yard, all of whom guarded the British throne's heir apparent during his day-long visit...
...Anti-sniper teams guarded the area aroundMemorial Hall, keeping watch from the roof of theSchool of Design across the street. A police dogsniffed photographers' bags before the Princearrived, and members of Scotland Yard were also onthe scene...
...paving stones and sticks at the invaders. Hungarian patriots, some as young as 13, were cut down in hails of automatic gunfire. Their bodies were added to piles of unburied corpses, dusted with lime, that littered the city. Soviet tanks blasted the facades off downtown buildings trying to stop sniper fire from upper windows. In scarcely more than a week the Hungarian dream of independence was over. A puppet government headed by Janos Kadar, 44, set about "normalizing" the country through executions, show trials and brutal repression. The purge made Kadar the most hated man in Hungary...
Meet the neighbors: a pair of muggers named Visa and MasterCharge, a misplaced Mormon, an abandoned rabbi, an African dictator, a welfare mother in double- digit pregnancies, a sniper, a man assembling a Chevy Nova in his living room, a 400-lb. dope dealer with an M.B.A., a family of Cambodians trying to farm their floorboards, mythic creatures known as the Nordic Ice Queen and the Madonna of Heat, and two ex-dancers who sell Tupperware...
...Scripture-Screamers were booked for a show at Malacanang Palace Monday morning, but sniper fire in downtown Manila delayed the band's bus. When they finally arrived, carrying bullet-proof Bibles, it was already late afternoon...