Word: stun
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...that the Pope should actually be hit and wounded-that still had a unique capacity to stun. The outpouring of anger, outrage and sympathy for the fallen Pontiff was all but universal-far more extensive than it had been for Ronald Reagan six weeks before. Explained Amos Barak, a young Jewish businessman in Jerusalem: "Shooting presidents, that's politics, that I can understand. But shooting the Pope-it's like shooting...
...President, whose campaign instincts are often underrated, was aiming not so much at the audience in Madison Square Garden as the one before the TV sets across America. He was not trying to stun or startle them with innovative programs but rather to reassure them with a sober assessment of his own actions...
...Kwangju's 800,000 citizens were awakened by the screech of tank treads and the flutter of helicopters flying in assault formations over the city's roofs. Paratroopers armed with machine guns, stun grenades and handguns stormed rebel strongholds in the provincial government offices, the tourist hotel, the local radio station and the city park. The rebels fought back with carbines, pistols and M16 rifles they had seized from government arsenals. But the civilian youths were scarcely a match for the crack airborne troops. In less than two hours the soldiers had secured Kwangju. As the sun rose...
...triggered "Operation Nimrod," for which the S.A.S. force had been preparing for several days. Within 30 minutes, some 20 S.A.S. commandos, clad in black and wearing hoods, gas masks and armored vests, attacked the embassy from the roof and from adjoining town houses. They carried submachine guns, pistols and stun grenades, whose "thunderflash" blinds and deafens its victims for several seconds. Some slithered down ropes from the roof and threw grenades through the back windows. Then they leaped in after the explosions; others made a similar assault from the front balcony...
...explosion that blew out the front windows of the embassy was apparently caused by one or more stun grenades, thrown by a commando. The interior of the embassy was quickly reduced to near rubble as it caught on fire from the explosions. According to some reports, S.A.S. men also broke through a brick wall from an adjoining building when the assault began...