Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three, perhaps four or more; no one could be positive. But the crowd knew instantly what had happened. Witness after witness was to liken the noise to the "popping of a string of firecrackers," -a description made so familiar by assassinations and attempted assassinations that it is now repeated instinctively. A woman who had been standing near the Pope told a reporter confidently: "It was a Browning 9." She had heard the sound of shots many times in her native Northern Ireland, to whose warring factions the Pope in September 1979 had made an impassioned but vain plea...
...Part of the reason for the relative ease with which the Israelis accept their dependence on the U.S. is the enduring cultural love affair most Israelis have for everything American. Young sabras still snap up American rock records and jeans, rush to any American movie, and pull every available string to travel...
That comparison is far too extreme, but moderates on both sides feel that the British must find some way of heading off a string of hunger-strike deaths. John Hume, a respected Catholic leader of Northern Ireland's Social Democratic and Labor Party, feels that the British could work out a compromise on the political prisoner issue, allowing inmates some freedom of association and to wear clothing they could claim as their...
...Bird surge broke Houston's back. After the Rockets once more closed it to five, it was their turn to watch helplcssly while the Celts handled the ball with grace and sank the freethrows awarded them by a steady string of Houston fouls...
...Corporation's Committee on Shareholder Responsibility voted two weeks ago for a shareholder resolution advocating restrictions on IBM sales to the South African government, a few optimists may have seen hints of change in the action. But the Corporation's statement on its IBM vote and its string of abstentions last week--on resolutions at Mobil, Atlantic Richfield, Exxon and Dow Chemical--quickly and effectively demonstrated that the Corporation continues to refuse to challenge the status...