Word: swat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home turf, the Times is often accused of a preoccupation with Manhattan at the expense of the city's four other boroughs. Justly. Although it quickly mobilized a journalistic SWAT team for last month's blackout, the Times has only one full-time reporter stationed in all of Queens (pop. 2 million) and none in The Bronx (pop. 1.4 million). When a ten-alarm fire consumed all the buildings in seven square blocks of Brooklyn five days after the blackout, the Times ran the story on page...
...night wore on, the number of lawmen prowling the mountains rose to 150. Five vanloads arrived carrying teams of specially trained state trooper SWAT teams. At the direction of Attorney General Bell, who stayed in close contact with the President, the FBI took charge of the case, and 75 agents moved quickly into the area. The FBI ordered in a special helicopter armed with an infra-red sensing device; it began roaming the area, hunting for minute changes in temperature on the forest floor that might be caused by the presence of men. In all, five helicopters flew over...
...yard 11th hole, in which a rocky gully traverses the fairway, was transformed into a miniature wind tunnel yesterday. Unable to keep from swaying at address, Vik took a swat at his ball while striding up to it. The result was a smoother hook that carried some 50 yards. After that, Vik hit his driver off the fairway followed by a 3-wood, but was still shy of the green...
...would be a sickly season indeed were it not for a new twist: the emergence of Steve Cauthen. An apprentice jockey since his 16th birthday last May, Cauthen has won 276 races and more than $1.6 million in purses since riding his first professional mount. That nag, King of Swat, was a 136-to-l long shot, and finished as the odds had him-dead last -but Cauthen has been winning ever since. He stands a good chance this year of building the most successful season a "bug boy" (apprentice) has ever known...
...threatened with immediate extinction unless his debts are settled, beat the point spread? Most of all, will Good Cop Charlton Heston and Stadium Manager Martin Balsam be able to neutralize the sniper without having to turn to the dire methods of Tough Cop John Cassavetes and his blood-hungry SWAT team...