Word: swat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene around 1466 East 54th St., a yellow frame and stucco building, quickly took on a surrealistic air. While sweating TV camera crews toted their equipment into place, 18 heavily armed members of the Los Angeles police department's special weapons and tactics unit (known as SWAT) got ready for battle. Wearing bulky flak jackets, they closed in on the house and gently clicked off the safeties on their semiautomatic weapons. Curious neighbors wandered over, largely unimpeded, to see what was happening. Knots of people stood in their backyards, waiting for some Friday-night entertainment. Minutes later...
George Herman Ruth, also known as the Babe, Bambino, Sultan of the Swat, and even as Tarzan, was one of those men. In the time just after World War I, he stepped into the limelight both for his spectacular ball playing and for his spectacular off-the-field escapades...
...when Aaron hit an A1 Downing pitch over the left center field wall before a home crowd in Atlanta Monday night, Aaron broke Ruth's record of four decades to become the new home run king and on paper anyway, the new Sultan of the Swat...
...Harvard compromises the artist. We handball players must spurn the ivied walls and swat out our existences in sterile squash courts...
...decried distortions in the press, his own arguments have been accented with inaccurate historical allusions and downright misstatements that he has never bothered to correct. Cropping up now as a public worry in the opinion samplings is another of those "petty" episodes that the men in the White House swat as if they were mere flies. Nixon went into a meeting with 16 Governors and told them he knew of no other Watergate developments that would embarrass them. The next day it was revealed that one of the tapes had a more than 18-minute gap and Nixon had known...